Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constituents of Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, would like you to publish a sketch of the career and achievements of the Honorable Jim. W. A. Bugher J. A. McCall G. H. Dove Edith Dove W. H. Ritter G. E. Osmon Frank Hastings Plainville, Ind...
Born: Winchester, Ind., Nov. 2, 1864. Career: Son of a country lawyer, he was educated at DePauw University where he played baseball, got his A.B. in 1886. Admitted to the Indiana bar next year, he began practice with his father. In 1892 he married Flora Miller who bore him three sons, one daughter. He removed to Rushville (pop. 5,709) in 1893 where he has made his home ever since. He joined the Elks, made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served...
...stand behind a man with St. Vitus's dance? A G. O. Politician to the core, he is forever busy with local matters-jobs for the faithful, greater use of Indiana limestone in public buildings, retention of the post office name at Santa Claus, Ind...
McNutt v. Springer. At Logansport, Ind. Raymond S. Springer, campaigning as Republican nominee for Governor against Democrat Paul Vories McNutt, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the American Legion, mounted a circus elephant, joined a G. O. Parade. Going up an incline the beast stumbled to its knees. Nominee Springer pitched forward, saved himself from a bad fall by grabbing the elephant's ears...
During the boom times, Butler University (enrollment: 1,414) at Indianapolis, Ind. did its athletes proud. It built a big stadium and an elaborate Butler Field House. Ruefully last week Butler's President Walter Scott Athearn took stock. University assets are some $6,000,000. Last year's deficit came to $7,000. Describing the athletic outlay as ''millstones about the neck of the school which bid fair to bankrupt and close [it] within five years." President Athearn declared that the day of intercollegiate athletic spectacles is gone, never to return. "Gate receipts,'' mourned...