Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ants on the Mountain. As usual, the state of war brought with it a tightening of nerves. In response to radio and telephone alarms in Indianapolis, Ind., policemen took to their squad cars in search of a black panther reputedly terrorizing their city with mournful rapacious howls. The search was called off only when the menace was identified as a mooning but amiable Newfoundland...
...Prepared. In New Albany, Ind., Head Librarian Elsa Strassweg resigned herself to the current rash of book thefts: the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook...
...poor parents, Shay Minton was born 58 years ago in the southern Indiana hill country called the "Knob" district, went to work when he was eight years old. He put himself through Indiana and Yale law schools at the top of his classes, settled in New Albany, Ind. to practice law and enter politics. He was licked twice trying to get into the House of Representatives, but he rode into the Senate in the somber days of 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a vote-getting battle cry: "You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution...
...shabby little church stood just off a dirt road four miles southeast of rural Pimento, Ind. Rain dripped through the ceiling, and the wind worried at the rags and papers stuffed into broken window panes. Squirrels scuttled in & out of the root, and the lights no longer worked. For the ten or 15 oldsters in their 703 or beyond who persisted in coming to worship at the Methodist Church's down-at-heel Fletcher Chapel, there was a plain choice: fix up or give up. That was four years...
Edna Ruggles did, in sooth, have a protest. She was fired by the Indianapolis Glove Co. at Marion, Ind. for uttering loud and profane reflections on the ancestry of her glove machine. Edna and her union (the A.F.L.'s International Glove Workers) protested to Louis Plost, Chicago trial examiner of the National Labor Relations Board. After due reflection, Examiner Plost last week handed down his decision...