Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three months ago, when James Eli Watson of Indiana was chosen by his Republican colleagues to lead them in the Senate, many were the predictions of trouble ahead for the north wing of the Capitol. Last week that trouble came, brimming up in the Senate to give Leader Watson a bad time...
...William M. Rogers, Indiana Klansman, had sworn before a Senate committee that upon a trip to Washington in 1926 he had applied to Senator Watson for assistance in getting a Government job, that Senator Watson had proudly exhibited a Klan imperial passport, had claimed high membership in the order...
This testimony greatly distressed Senator Watson, then an active presidential candidate. He denied the Rogers statement but not, according to his friends, emphatically, convincingly enough. Thereafter, according to the charges in the Rogers damage suit, Candidate Watson, Republican National Committeeman M. Burt Thurman and six other Indiana politicians (all defendants in this case) conspired to compel Plaintiff Rogers to reverse his testimony given the Senate committee...
...small molecules of gasoline. From two gallons of gas oil and fuel oil so treated, approximately one gallon of gasoline could be produced. This breaking down or splitting of the molecules was called cracking. The cracking process was first (1910) commercially perfected by William M. Burton, Standard Oil of Indiana chemist. Later Texas Co. developed the Holmes-Manley process, Standard of New Jersey the tube-and-tank process, and Gasoline Products Corp. the Cross process. Other processes followed and the petroleum industry found itself in the midst of patent infringement litigation featured 'by a Texas v. Standard of Indiana...
...Indiana, the National Confectioners' Association convened, announced: ". . . The masculine sweet tooth is steadily growing sweeter. . . . Candy has become a food for he-men?and the 'heer' they are the more candy they...