Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph West Robey is 35 and a bachelor, handsome enough to have kept Topeka's young women in a flutter since his arrival. He advises Nominee Landon on banking and finance. Born in tiny Masontown, W. Va., Ralph Robey learned his economics in Indiana and Columbia Universities, has since expounded his views in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Evening Post, Washington Post and as banking instructor in Columbia's School of Business. An acquaintanceship with Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley put him on the fringe of the Roosevelt brain trust in 1932, but since the Bank...
...years of newspapering Forrest Davis had never before held down an executive job. Born in Indiana, this son of a Presbyterian minister gravitated to Manhattan, became the ace newshawk of the World-Telegram. Equally good at straight reporting or feature writing, he was given a roving commission for the Scripps-Howard chain last year. He had just finished a Midwest tour "to find out what America is really thinking about," when the Denver editorship came...
...roads. In this regard the states fail miserably. Four impose no restrictions on drivers; eight require only that a certain age be reached; twelve grant licenses on mere application; 24 require tests, which are almost universally insufficient. For the other 85% of drivers the great need is instruction. Indiana leads the way here, requiring 20 hours a semester of driving instruction in high schools. Third means of improvement is strict punishment. That this works was proven by Evanston, Ill., worst U. S. accident city of its size in 1928, safest now after inaugurating strict law enforcement, harsh penalties, immediate investigation...
...reputation as a bad man are largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of Bass as a poor illiterate devil who was constantly falling into traps, robbing empty trains, making friends with spies. A tall Indiana boy, an orphan at 13, Bass was caught up in the social chaos that followed the Civil War, drifted South in Reconstruction days, worked in a Mississippi sawmill, before he became involved in crooked horse racing in Texas. In his early career the unpopularity of the State Government, supported by Federal troops...
Overwhelmingly Republican were Missouri, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Just as stoutly Democratic were Tennessee, Kentucky, Washington. Iowa, which went Republican in the Institute of Public Opinion's latest poll, went Democratic for the Farm Journal...