Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana: Even with normal weather, corn will be off 5%-10%; soybeans 15%; milk 2%-5%. More beef animals will be sold, but at weights below 1942. > Iowa: The State has an alltime record number of livestock on farms, but grains will...
...might think I am quoting from one of my own speeches," said Wendell Willkie last week, reading this little homily at a Republican dinner in his home State of Indiana. He was not; he had just done a little historical sleuthing. The quotation was 41 years old, spoken by none other than President William McKinley, high priest of high tariffs, day before he was shot at Buffalo...
Having thus partly adjusted the U.S.'s memories of its 25th President, Wendell Willkie set out to do a little refurbishing of his own political glamor. The welcome that had greeted him in Indiana had not been warm; well known was the fact that the only pictures of Republican bigwigs which do not hang in State G.O.P. Headquarters are Wendell Willkie's and those of two miscreant ex-Governors...
This was more like it. Indiana Republicans who had feared that Wendell Willkie was a Democrat in G.O.P. clothing rose and cheered. Next day a reception was hastily cooked up; Wendell Willkie's old enemies came in droves, no GOPster dared stay away. Then came the final tribute: State Chairman Ralph Gates asked Wendell Willkie for his picture, he wanted to hang it in State Headquarters...
Swift, who has been vice-president since elections held last fall, succeeded to the presidency automatically, while Stanton was chosen to fill Swift's former position. At the same time, the Cabinet voted that Thomas V. Keene '45 of Winthrop House and Indianapolis, Indiana, become secretary. Keene is treasurer of the Student Council, and his election therefore extends the customary procedure under which the post is filled by the Council officer...