Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana's ponderous Republican Homer Capehart sensed a "sinister motive" in the bill. Georgia's Democratic Walter George saw nothing sinister about it but slyly suggested: Why not tax such expense allowance? "If the tax is too burdensome," he said, "when the President asks us to raise $4 billion additional taxes, he will have a gentle reminder of what it all amounts...
...Dear to My Heart (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), a sugary version of Sterling North's novel about an Indiana backwoods boyhood, is short on realism but long on entertainment. Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll) and his little black lamb are good for a few laughs and tears, but the story is mainly useful as an excuse for Burl Ives's ballads and Walt Disney's cartoons...
Attempts to control the minds of educators and young men are ominously similar to Hitler's tactics in Germany, Mather said. He cited the case of a faculty member in Evansville College, Evansville, Indiana, who was dismissed because he and served as the chairman of a Wallace rally. Such actions put a cloud of fear over university teachers which prevents them from expressing their real opinions or associating with any persons who might be suspicious...
...town of Freedom (pop. 250) lies in a darkly wooded valley in Owen County, Indiana. The country around it is mostly "hills, hollers and underbrush." That's the way Miss Edith Madden, the telephone switchboard operator, describes it. Freedom is a farming town, more than 100 years old, and is connected with the world by State Highway...
Unsuccessful Hunting. Nobody harpooned the even more mythical white whale known as the "Great American Novel." Indiana's Ross Lockridge (who later committed suicide) made a stab at it; he brought home a huge, Ulysses-like animal named Raintree County, which was hailed by critics as a monumental attempt and then floated away in an embarrassed silence. Silence was the kindest treatment of Remembrance Rock, Carl Sandburg's large, muddled, impassioned effort to learn lessons for the future from a study of the American past...