Word: indianans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Hershey himself is a genial Indianan, noted for his wry wit. His speeches in the past have been blunt and frank, and he makes no bones of his opinion that all able-bodied men should be either in the army or in war work...
...turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...
...young Indianan who worked under Harry Hopkins as a State WPAdministrator, was a longtime protege of Indianan Paul McNutt, outgrew McNutt to become increasingly important to the President as a drafter of domestic and defense programs. He is spectacled, sallow, and extremely fast of mind...
...Indiana's Purdue University last week, Henry Wallace's successor, Indianan Claude Raymond Wickard, served notice on the cotton industry that as far as the Department of Agriculture is concerned, America's choice has now been made. He reminded his audience that the decline of the U. S. farmers' export market long antedates Hitler: it began when the rest of the world began to grow corn, wheat & cotton of its own. Said the new Secretary: "There are two bales of cotton in the world today for every bale that will probably be used in the current...
...Philadelphia the only commercial gallery which tries to sell top-notch art is Carlen's, run by a crusading Indianan, Robert Carlen. Last week Carlen's opened a show of 50 works which, to a visitor not in on the secret, might have looked like the one-man show of a promising, well-trained youth, at home in a lot of media: oil, water color, gouache, lithography, etching, drawing. Actually, Carlen's exhibit was the work of two artists. They were identical twins: small, redheaded Freda & Ida Leibovitz...