Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born June 16, 1917, in Rushville, Ind., where I lived for 22 years. Rushville was a small town where the colored folks had the same opportunities as the white. Philip Willkie spent most of his time riding around in the city with my grandfather, my brother and myself. We grew to be very close friends. And in this way I became very well acquainted with the rest of the Willkie family...
...became Asst. Scout Master and finally Scout Master for the same troop. . . . I believe that this information, if properly circulated, will be a big help to Mr. Willkie and will kill a great deal of the prejudice the colored people have for him because he was born in Elwood, Ind...
That independence had gotten him many a black eye and bloody nose in the days when he was one of the four rough Willkie boys at Elwood, Ind., a talent for trouble that rose from pushing over Elwood outhouses (sometimes with outraged citizens in them), on through college, when he was so pugnaciously nonconformist as to organize the "barbs" against the fraternity men. He had always eventually conformed, but always on his own terms. In his last year as a turtleneck-sweatered roughneck at Indiana University he did join a fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, best on the campus, whose requirements...
Democratic National Committee Indianapolis, Ind...
...people were really trying: eggs, a cantaloupe, a rock, a stick had been pitched at him. In Homestead, Pa., police confiscated an unknown quantity of tomatoes and apple cores from some twelve-year-old politicians; in Philadelphia, one Israel Kirby, 65-who happens to have been born in Rushville, Ind.-was arrested with a dozen eggs at a Shibe Park Willkie speech; had to prove they were eating, not throwing eggs...