Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elliott of Indiana, chairman of the Public Buildings Committee...
...Wood of Indiana, acting chairman of the Appropriations Committee...
When the Public Lands Committee of the Senate was trying, last year, to find out what became, in 1921, of the profits of the Continental Trading Co. (side-spout of the Teapot Dome oil mess), it asked Col. Robert W. Stewart, chief of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and stout friend of Oilman Sinclair, if he had "received" any of the Continental profits. "No," answered Oilman Stewart. He declined to say if he knew anyone who did "receive" the profits. For his silence the Senate indicted Col. Stewart for contempt. Also having learned that one-fourth of the Continental...
David Curtis Stephenson, Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in 1924, is in jail for life. He attacked a girl...
...along the Dixie highway noticed last week, as others did all summer and autumn, uncouth men clamber out of the wooded gullies and ravines of Morgan County. The men had in common an intent, secretive, yet futile look on their faces. They were diamond hunters. Every day they waded Indiana's creeks and panned the gravel left there long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal moraines of old glaciers, geologists...