Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played mighty football for Michigan (where his scrawny little brother in Sigma Chi, Frank Murphy, hero-worshipped him), and Bo Elder was the Legion's national treasurer. To these two it was important that they get the handsome, prematurely white-haired young dean of the University of Indiana Law School elected national commander of the Legion. They did so by shrewdly lining up the second-choice votes of other candidates' backers. They took Commander Paul McNutt back with them to the Legion's national headquarters in Indianapolis and then began planning to make him President...
Last week Indiana's soil, as distinct from its station platforms, was dotted with shocks of new-cut wheat. Young green corn was two to three feet high, and high-legged hogs stood up to their chocolate-colored rumps in lush, weedy meadows. Wild hollyhocks and roses splashed the fence lines with color, but nowhere bloomed a fairer flower for Hoosier politicians to gaze upon than their radiantly handsome master, Paul Vories McNutt, returning home to do some hoeing in his own back row. For Paul McNutt's Presidential hopes, carefully nursed through many a long winter, were...
...candidate who could stride upon the national stage like a handsome Ulysses returning from labors abroad to hurl fear and respect into the hearts of Democracy's home-hugging suitors. It mattered not that the welcoming party was synthetic, that the Candidate's welcome to Indiana was rather warmer than its welcome to him. Now was beginning one of the earliest, boldest, most determined campaigns ever made for a major U. S. nomination. Paul McNutt, with truly towering modesty, declared...
Paul McNutt had a Harvard law degree, a model record among educators as the youngest (34) dean of the Indiana Law School. During the War he became a major of Field Artillery, was never sent overseas. He could make a speech that lifted Legionnaires (or voters) right out of their seats. As national commander, he strode up & down the land making speeches, pumping hands, pounding backs, remembering names, flashing his magnificent smile...
Friends & Enemies. Besides McHale, Elder and Townsend, the Indiana gang behind Paul McNutt now included Sherman ("Shay") Minton, whom they sent to the Senate in 1935; Edmund Arthur Ball of Muncie, member of the rich glass-jar family; and Fred Bays, a dapper, saturnine oldtime dancer and circus man. Him they made Democratic State Chairman, to handle ballyhoo. Besides banners, bands and buttons, Mr. Bays uses tap dancers, a singing cop, contortionists. When the McNutt campaign gets going nationally, the country may see something remarkable...