Word: indiana
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Lazy Homes. A stern moralist of 46, Judge Stout totally embodies her mother's motto: "Make yourself useful." Raised in Oklahoma, she whipped into third grade at the age of six, later taught school and then earned law degrees at Indiana University. In Philadelphia, she practiced criminal law, became an assistant D.A., and in 1959 overwhelmingly won election to a ten-year term on the county court. Barely 5 ft. tall, she peers from the bench atop three extra cushions and often keeps no-lunch court hours that make attendants mutter, "She's made of steel...
Died. Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 74, dour former Supreme Court Justice who defended the New Deal ("You can't eat the Constitution") when he was U.S. Democratic Senator from Indiana (1935-41), remained sympathetic to the Administration after President Truman appointed him to the high court in 1949, backing the Justice Department in most antitrust appeals and concurring in the unanimous school desegregation decision of 1954, retiring as a result of pernicious anemia in 1956; of intestinal hemorrhaging; in New Albany...
...Tyler, but by 1924 the Klan's great days were ending. Several states invoked anti-Klan laws; others forbade the Klan to wear masks. Corruption among the bosses and internecine battles for leadership further weakened the organization. In 1926 David Stephenson, the posturing Grand Dragon of the Indiana Realm, was convicted of murder after the lower-berth Pullman-car rape of a young woman. The Indiana affair hurt the Klan image considerably more than the castrations and lynchings that Klansmen had perpetrated in all the years before. Members resigned by the hundreds. In the '30s the Klan cuddled...
...among U.S. Governors, such as Tennes see's Frank G. Clement, whose recent plea for abolition ("Thou shalt not kill") lost by only one vote in the state legislature. Hurrying to Death Row, Clement immediately commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to 99 years. Abolition lost in Indiana this month only because the last-minute murder of three policemen persuaded the Governor to veto it. Last week it was being discussed by the legislatures in Illinois, Vermont and New York, where an influential bipartisan commission called execution "an act of supreme violence" and argued that New York...
...breaking 46.1, then coming back with a 45.0 100-yard anchor to give Yale the 400-freestyle relay the with a record time of 3:07.2, Yale, however finished a distant fourth place to the team standings with 66 points. Other record breakers in the three any meet included Indiana's Fred Schmidt no knocked more than two seconds off the national 200-yard butterfly record with a time of 1:51.4 and Indiana's Tom Yetheway who won the 200-yard breast broke...