Word: indiana
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Blind Alec Templeton was brought to Chicago lately as a specialty performer by British Bandmaster Jack Hylton, whose orchestra plays at the Drake Hotel and over the radio sponsored by Standard Oil of Indiana. By this week, when Real Silk Hosiery was to take over the sponsorship, critics were convinced that an amazing musical talent had quietly turned up in Chicago. Young Templeton was born blind, of Scottish parents, on a farm near Cardiff in Wales. At 2, he played the piano, imitating the notes of a nearby church bell. At 4, he composed a lullaby with which his mother...
Died. George R. Dale, 69, Indiana publisher & politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Muncie, Ind. In 1921 he founded the Muncie Post-Democrat, declared war on the Ku Klux Klan. Hoodlums stoned him, slugged him, smashed his presses, forced him to print his newspaper outside the State. In 1925, indicted for bootlegging, Editor Dale was sentenced to jail by a judge he had attacked, claimed he had been framed. Newspapers, led by the late New York World, rushed to his defense, carried his case to the U. S. Supreme Court where it was dismissed on a technicality. In 1932, after three...
...share the common misconception of the Midwest of those who seldom venture beyond the Hudson. Draw a horizontal line across Indiana about 20 miles south of Indianapolis. South of that line you will have more than one-third the State's area. And in that one-third plus area there are more hills than plains...
...Loyal Indiana Subscribers Hatcher and Jewell take TIME'S simile too literally. Even so, rolling Indiana's highest point (1,240 ft., in Randolph County) is 2,265 ft. below Mt. Greylock in the Berkshires...
...Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several of them knew." On the piazza of their home, they rocked back & forth, clucked to each other about Reclamation, the Townsend Plan, other legislation of the day. The Public Utilities Act, strangely enough, they never discussed...