Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor worked out a catchy name for it -the "slave labor" bill-and launched its campaign. To beat the bill, the A.F.L. alone poured $1,000,000 into newspaper ads, radio programs and mass meetings, all adding up to a demand that the President veto it. In Pennsylvania and Indiana, 17,000 of Jonn Lewis' mine workers walked out in protest strikes. From California, A.F.L. and C.I.O. delegates moved on Washington in a "veto caravan" of 100 autos; they hoped to stage an eleventh-hour demonstration at the White House...
...Along. At Indiana University, 23-year-old Donald Duggleby barely paused to say: "Pardon me, but you'll have to hurry because I've got to get along. Problem? The main problem of everybody is to catch up. We're all trying to get where we would have been if there hadn't been a war." In getting there, many had unabashedly criticized textbooks and frightened incompetent instructors. One awed chemistry teacher at U.C.L.A. reported that they had raised his class average 20% over previous years...
...expect this happy state of affairs to last long. They expected a depression, or at least a recession. That was why they were running-to get in out of the storm. They were fairly confident that they would at least make the storm cellar. Harry Brandt, of Indiana U., already had a job as staff executive in the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce. Did Harry expect to succeed...
...Midwesterner by birth like Dean Hanford, he earned his college education by teaching grade school and by working as a railroad hand. He studied for two years at Goshen College, Indiana, transferring to Harvard and graduating...
...real intersectional games--no longer a feature of today's bone-crushing schedules--next tested the eleven. Indiana succumbed 19 to 0, and Georgia was added to the list of victims by the good right too of Plaffman, whose field goal broke up a 7 to 7 deadlock. Penn State provided unexpected resistance to the team and, as the CRIMSON headline put it "Crimson and Penn State Battle to Draw Before Spellbound Thousands." The score...