Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Learned that a Gallup Poll showed him a winner over Franklin Roosevelt in four key Midwestern States-Michigan (57%), Ohio (54%), Illinois (54%), Indiana (57%)-if the election were held...
With Truman holding a narrow lead, 477½-to-472½, the bosses could wait no longer. Alabama's Bankhead withdrew his name, threw 22 votes to Truman. South Carolina switched all 18 votes to Truman. The galleries howled and screamed. Indiana's huge Boss Frank McHale withdrew Paul McNutt's name. Maine came over to Truman. "We want Wallace!" roared the galleries...
Press and radiomen were told on Monday that Indiana Senator Samuel Jackson would read President Roosevelt's long-awaited letter about Henry Wallace to them that night. The press took this in stride. So did all the networks except...
...serve in posts and stations all over the United States and in every overseas theatre of operations. A great majority of the chaplains on active duty today are graduates of the Chaplain School at Harvard which began classes on August 10, 1942 after transferring from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana...
...these sects was the Brethren, founded (1708) by Alexander Mack in Germany. Under Peter Becker, the Brethren migrated in mass to America in 1719. Most of them farm in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland. Few sects are more respected...