Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevented again. Especial opprobrium for opposition attached, curiously, to a Congressman named Vestal. He was neither a Roman, nor did he come from a politically virginal State. He came, indeed, from a State which during this decade seemed rapidly to be acquiring the title of Mother of All Corruption: Indiana, famed for its Governors-in-jail, for its Klan Dragons, its Watson machine. Congressman Vestal was not a leader in the anti-reapportionment fight. But he happened recently to have been appointed the Republican Whip?it being thereby his job to whip all Republicans into their seats to vote...
...three Republican leaders? Longworth, Tilson, Snell?had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...
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...annual meeting of the stockholders of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana will be held on March 7. Only a handful of the 58,000 stockholders* will be present. But practically every stockholder will be represented by a proxy, for a bitter fight is to be settled. One group of proxies will be held by a representative of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The other will be held by Col. Robert Wright Stewart. The fight is over the re-election of Colonel Stewart as Chairman of the Board...
...criticisms. The Senator passed from the oratorical into the conversational; galleries and stenographers strained ears to catch low-toned thrusts and parries. Relatively in the background remained Senator Reed of Missouri, big anti-treaty gun still to be shot off. Meanwhile Bruce of Maryland, Johnson of California, Robinson of Indiana, Bingham of Connecticut, many another smaller gun popped, snapped, sputtered. The Senator from Idaho began somewhat to resemble an Horatius at the bridge, a Leonidas at Thermopylae. It was a sham battle, inasmuch as there existed an almost universal opinion that the treaty would easily collect its necessary two-thirds...