Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 56% of the U. S. population is urban, the family must be city-dwellers. Indianapolis was chosen because it is a rail, highway and airway centre and because it is the nearest big city to the geographical centre of population of the U.S. (1.9 mi. west of Whitehall, Ind.). In Indianapolis the 598 Smiths, 174 Whites, and 3,366 Millers, Johnsons, Browns, Joneses, Davises, Wilsons, Moores, Williamses, Thompsons and Taylors listed in the telephone directory were asked to define the typical family. Then Reporter M. K. Wisehart.of American Magazine obtained from the local Chamber of Commerce a list...
...prowess, 42 brass bands marched the streets of Tulsa, Okla., last week, then all played together a concert under Bandmaster John Philip Sousa. This grand and noisy occasion was the climax of the Sixth National High School Band Contest. Joliet, Ill. played best of the big schools, Hobart, Ind. of the middle-sized schools, West De Pere, Wis. of the small schools. Fortnight ago in Cleveland the best orchestras came from Cleveland's Glenville High School, East Chicago's Roosevelt High School, Decatur, Mich. High School...
...with additional Lofts in Boston, Syracuse & Detroit). Membership requirement: proof of bonafide pumping, plus a life-membership fee of $5. Some of the members: the late Myron T. Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker...
...Robert Judson Aley, 68, president since 1921 of thriving little Butler University at Indianapolis, Ind., resigned last week voluntarily to "write, travel, and play...
...Dreiser is not an "average earthling." Born in Terre Haute, Ind. of impoverished German parents, Theodore was one of 13 children. Late Songwriter Paul "On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal" was the only one beside his younger brother to become famed. Franker than the average, Autobiographer Theodore tells of the religious mania of his father, the hell raising of his brothers, the amorous experiments of his sisters (whom he protects by pseudonyms). Himself very shy, young Theodore trembled when he first saw a girl in tights, but seems to have been in love with love as soon...