Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These goings-on in Detroit last week were in connection with a strike against big, rich Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes automobile bodies for Chryslers, Plymouths, Dodges, De Sotos, Packards, Lincolns. Because of the strike Chrysler Corp. had to close ten of its plants in Michigan and Indiana, the Lincoln (Ford) plant was closed in Detroit and 70,000 employes were idle, including those of parts suppliers dependent upon the automakers...
...with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were of Jewish blood: Alf Landon, William Allen White Mrs. Cordell Hull...
First undergraduate prize of $500 was won by Walter J. Bate '39 of Richmond, Indiana for a work called "Negative Capability: Keats' Conception of the Poetical Character." Henry D. Oyen '41 took a $200 award for his essay "Irregular War" and the $100 third place award went to Archibald B. Roosevelt '40 for "The Smith in Song and Saga...
...their cities as poor relations, dependent on the U. S. Treasury, communities already at or near their legal debt limits and unable to cope alone with unemployment. A unique mayor last week was Ross D. Rogers of Amarillo, Tex., home of cows, dust storms and helium. Said Representative Ludlow, Indiana Democrat: "I have been in your city on several occasions, Mr. Mayor, and it strikes me that there wouldn't have been any serious trouble if there had been...
Kenneth T. Young '39, of Cambridge, was recommended to the Corporation for the first prize of $100, while Ray S. Cline '39, of Dunster House and Terre Haute, Indiana, was named for the second prize of $50. Their names will have to be submitted to the Corporation for acceptance before they receive their awards for winning the examination held April...