Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...included both Democrats and Republicans, the Governors discussed most controversial questions in a non-controversial manner. Prohibition, so burning a question that it is almost certain to provoke heated debate, they did not even mention. Among prominent governors present were Lennington Small, Illinois; John E. Martineau, Arkansas; Ed Jackson, Indiana; John Hammill, Iowa; Ralph O. Brewster, Maine (president of the conference) ; and Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. Among prominent governors not present were Dan Moody, Texas; Alvan T. Fuller, Massachusetts; Alfred E. Smith, New York; Charles C. Young, Calfornia; George W. P. Hunt,* Arizona...
Governor Ed Jackson, Indiana, at present more or less involved in the Ku Klux Klan disclosures emanating from David C. Stephenson (see CORRUPTION), said that he had a sympathetic interest in all the questions discussed and was willing to cooperate fully in bettering the country...
...survey showed that the Chicago metropolitan district (Cook, Kane, Du Page and Will counties in Illinois and Lake county in Indiana) produced in 1925 manufactured goods valued at $4,688,696,674 or 7.47% of all goods made in the U. S. that year. Its population then was 3.47% of the country's. Its 10,540 industrial establishments paid $765,847,023 to 499,823 employes...
...pretty good horse and had a "kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
Last week, however, his bones were discovered in the closet where Indiana keeps its political skeletons, were dragged out and picked over. For he became Exhibit A in the expose of Indiana politics which Mr. Stephenson (in jail since April 1925 for murder) last fortnight began (TIME, July 18). Mr. Stephenson had begun his expose by confiding to Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy many of the deeds performed during his (Mr. Stephenson's) tenure of office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took...