Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brown rats, black with coal-dust, scampered. Up long, inclined shafts they crawled, their beady eyes blinking in the light. Not long before, the miners, their faces smudged a ghastly grey, had straggled wearily up the shafts. The soft coal strike began in the central competitive area, including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and in the adjoining states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma...
Thus even though Republicans carried such great states as Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and all New England (except Massachusetts) and the Pacific Coast, and all the Rocky Mountains (except Montana and Colorado) and all the doubtful Corn Belt and radical...
...distinguished senate of Indiana, 50 strong, sat last week as a court for the first time in 92 years. The immediate cause was a bitter quarrel between two middleaged men in the ill-favored town of Muncie, Ind. The reason, which the senate decided was good, sufficient and constitutional, was that one of the quarrelers, a circuit court judge named Clarence W. Dearth, appeared to have committed acts for which he deserved impeachment. That the other quarreler, Editor George R. Dale of the Muncie Post-Democrat (weekly) was a fugitive from Judge Dearth's justice, across the state line...
...Judge Dearth, irate and mortified, had meantime over-exerted his powers by arresting newsboys, confiscating their Post-Democrats and forbidding them to sell any more. The howl that Editor Dale was able to put up over this and other "Dearth scandals" persuaded the board of managers of the Indiana House of Representatives to prosecute Judge Dearth before the Senate. At the trial last week, testimony tended to show that Judge Dearth had in a variety of ways, "fixed" < his juries to give the verdicts which he, as Judge, desired. The trial moved along, strewn with puns about "dearth...
...wave" theory was visible only in isolated cases. The self-hanging of Bruce Frederick Wilson, Princeton sophomore, closely followed the self-hanging of a Yale sophomore and the self-asphyxiation of a Princeton graduate student. In the wallet of Mclntire Harsha, University of Chicago freshman found shot dead among Indiana sand dunes, was a news clipping about student discontent (but his father mentioned a love affair...