Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar pleas and protests of educators' conferences, observers noted one significant difference. With the breakdown of local support, educators have turned almost unanimously to cry for Federal subsidy. Last week conferring citizens were inclined to think that Education's salvation lay in the State. Echoed by Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt, Citizen Alfred E. Smith called (by proxy) for State support of schools, warned against Federal control. Wrote he: "It is axiomatic in American Government that control follows support. Men may cry Federal aid without Federal control but so declaring does not determine the outcome. . . . Whoever...
...need of a national police force, did reveal that such fears were mere tommyrot among the full grown men at Harvard. Although residents of Revere and Malden have been sure that the Minnesota Ford V-8 seen on the parkways and sidestreets of those towns belonged to the Indiana sheriff-slipper, Apted was inclined to chalk such accounts up to profit and loss, and took the opportunity to tell of his ideas for the country's need of a national unified police force. "If this country had a unified police system, men like Dillinger would never exist," the famous detective...
...course Dr. Wirt may have thought it up by himself, but there is a fairly familiar odor of Ham and Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
...earliest letters was: "Der Sister. We ar al wel. Ma haz a baby. The old sow had six pigs." He was educated at Sister Catherine's Hartford Female Seminary, Boston Latin School, Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. Amherst College and Lane Theological College. As a missionary preacher he lectured Indiana frontiersmen on gambling, drinking and wenching. In 1861 Beecher became editor of the Independent and was drawn into the most unfortunate part of his career. His assistant, a brilliant, erratic journalist named Theodore Tilton, and the owner of the paper, H. C. Bowen, became such radical Republicans that Beecher...
Died. Harry Emerson Rowbottom, 49, onetime Indiana representative; of diabetes; in Evansville. In 1931 he was convicted of accepting a bribe to recommend a Post Office appointment, was sentenced to serve one year and a day, was later paroled...