Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This New York Herald Tribune advertisement, obviously referring to the crash of a passenger plane in Indiana, last week afforded a rare treat to regular readers of Public Notices in U. S. newsheets. "Personal" columns in London papers are usually full of interesting and mysterious appeals, appointments and code messages. In the U. S. they are taken up almost exclusively by statements from husbands who will no longer be responsible for their wives' debts, eccentric job-hunters, Mexican divorce lawyers and, in Manhattan, the dismal efforts of one Hiram Mann to get himself elected to Congress on a platform...
...near West Point, Neb. to see the National Cornhusking Championship. They cheered and stomped lustily as, with pheasants whirring up out of the sere corn rows and the yellow ears whacking against the bangboards, Husker Sherman Henriksen of Lancaster County, Nebraska, beat 16 competitors, including the champions of Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, with a net load of 27.62 bushels in the allotted 30 minutes...
...Seats. Not just to praise his NRA but also to explain his colleague George Peek's collateral AAA and to hold the farm vote for next autumn's Congressional elections, came General Johnson. Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota control 107 seats in the House of Representatives, 78 of which are now Democratic. Loss of many of these seats to the Republicans might deeply cut the Democratic house majority of 183, seriously hamper President Roosevelt's program...
Born in Indianapolis, Jimmy Ryan played football at Duquesne University, taught psychology and became president of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. Called to Washington in 1921 as education director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, a pervasive...
...minutes to beat a butter-lingered Pennsylvania team 14-to-7. Four times Harvard hurled itself against Holy Cross on the 1-yd. line. Four times Holy Cross's massive linemen held, then backed Harvard clown the field in ten plays for the winning touchdown, 10-to-7. Indiana ended a rainy day against Northwestern with a net yardage of minus...