Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everywhere political wiseacres interpreted Franklin Roosevelt's failure to crack down on "naughty" Senators Adams and McCarran-right after the triumph of "naughty" Senator Van Nuys in Indiana [see p. 11]-as "the end of the Roosevelt Party Purge...
...head of the Democratic Party, how do you like the Indiana situation...
Last week "the Indiana situation" was resolved most remarkably, and whether he liked it or not, Franklin Roosevelt had little to do with it. The resolvers were Indiana's dumpy little senior Senator, Frederick Van Nuys (rhymes with geese), and an alarmingly handsome gentleman on the other side of the Earth, Philippine High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt...
After Senator Van Nuys opposed President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last year, he was singled out as Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it last July from the White House steps (TIME, July 26), repeated it last August at a powwow of Democratic editors in Indianapolis: "The people of our State will not tolerate . . . any one in public office who will not put his shoulder to the wheel and give his earnest support...
...George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth member, has for six years been gen eral counsel to the Federal Power Com mission...