Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor M. Clifford Townsend last month convened Indiana's Legislature in a special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved...
...State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana) are expected. To compete with the enormous WPA and AAA influences for Barkley, a rural State road program this year provided jobs for 3,000 additional Chandler workers. Chandler supporters are this month distributing Old Age Benefit payments by hand instead of mail. To sellers of liquor and beer Happy...
Sirens screamed, 21 bombs (a Presidential salute) exploded, the band played A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and the screaming and shouting, whistling and waving, yelling and yowling McNutt Democrats of Indiana indulged themselves in the first hysteria...
That stirred up the Dutch blood of Senator Van Nuys, a small-town lawyer who spent 32 years climbing from precinct worker to Senator. He stethoscoped Indiana and concluded that his anti-Court-bill vote was one of the most popular he ever cast. He began to talk of running as an independent if denied the Democratic nomination. "I think I know the rank and file of the party. I have been with President Roosevelt 95% of the time. ... I propose that the people of Indiana shall have a chance to express themselves...
While the resolutions of the convention were being read, came a dramatic pause. The resolutions chairman yielded his manuscript to burly, bull-voiced Frank McHale, original McNutt-for-President man, now Indiana's National Democratic Committeeman. Sonorously Mr. McHale intoned: "Paul V. McNutt has never failed his community, his State or his country. With him as the nominee for President of the United States our party can proceed with full consciousness that every promise will be kept, that each platform declaration will be respected and that the best interests of the people will be served. Therefore, we, the Democratic...