Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brisk raid into fresh Nixon territory last week, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller whirled through seven states in seven days. Purpose of the expedition to Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida: to test the political climate in the heartland before deciding early next month whether to make the race against Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination. General finding: predictable coolness from the professionals, enough spontaneous warmth from amateurs and scattered Nixon dissidents to convince an energetic, personable Nelson Rockefeller that he might have a chance in the primaries if the voters could know...
Grey Heads. In appearance and content, today's Star closely resembles the paper founded 79 years ago by William Rockhill Nelson, a migrant Indiana contractor. The Star was and is interested in Kansas City, in Missouri, the Prairie States, the Midwest, the U.S., and the world, in just that order. It has two staffers in Washington, one in New York and one in Paris, but it has three in Independence, Mo. and five in Johnson County, Kans. Says Roy Roberts: "We take care of home base first...
...ranks eighth in capacity. ¶John Clark Jr.. 44, will become president of Technicolor Inc., succeeding a company founder. Dr. (of Physics) Herbert T. Kalmus, 78, who is retiring from active participation after 45 years with Technicolor, manufacturer of most of the nation's color-movie prints. Indiana-born, Columbia-educated ('34) Clark joined Technicolor in 1936, served as assistant to Kalmus until being appointed executive vice president in 1955. ¶Russell C. Taylor, 55, was named president of ACF Industries, Inc., railroad-car maker, succeeding James F. Clark, 56, who becomes chairman of the executive committee...
...position of trust," as defined by Landrum-Griffin. The charges grew in part out of the Senate rackets committee hearings, where Hutcheson refused to answer questions, and out of a grand jury investigation, which led to Hutcheson's indictment on a charge of bribery in an Indiana state highway scandal. Specific complaints against Hutcheson and some of his lesser officers: accepting at least $107,935.07 in employer bribes, leasing valuable union property to Hutcheson kinsmen at token rates, spending union funds in efforts to bribe state officials to quash the bribery indictment, dipping into the multimillion-dollar "special organizing...
...complaint from Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, who said after a tour of Latin America that the U.S. appoints too many do-nothing committees...