Word: indianas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very tough customer is Mr. Sherman Minton of New Albany, Ind. Boosted into the Senate three years ago with the help of his colleague, Frederick Van Nuys, he has now joined the rest of the Indiana Democratic machine in quietly cutting Senator Van Nuys' political throat. Last month Senator Minton introduced a bill making it a felony punishable by two years in jail and $1,000 to $10,000 fine to publish a "known untruth." The convicted magazine or newspaper would be suspended from the mails for six months. After vigorous editorial condemnation of his bill, Mr. Minton revealed...
...Program Committee. Based on the throw-away theory that the meagre income from cheap paid circulation is not worth the money and effort involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income on advertising alone -just as radio does. With the magazine's ledger and journal before it, the Minton Committee made much of the facts that in three years and three months of publication, Rural Progress had lost...
Disappointed that it was too late for her signature to be added to the list, Mrs. Jenckes took the next plane for Indiana. Meanwhile, in a seething, shouting mob of Congressmen, Aunt Mary Norton accepted congratulations on setting a new House record (2 hr. 22 min.) for committee discharge petitions and on the No. 1 achievement of her political career...
...Indiana, Senatorial candidates will be nominated at State conventions June 28 (Republican) and July 11 (Democratic). At last week's primaries eleven of the State's twelve sitting Representatives were renominated. For the twelfth seat, now held by anti-Rooseveltian Samuel Pettengill, South Bend Democrats put up a moderate Rooseveltian, George Beamer...
Method of Northwestern's survey was to stop drivers at selected points on the streets, ask them to blow up small balloons. The breath-filled balloon was then tested for alcohol on a "drunkometer" developed by Indiana University Medical School's Dr. R. N. Harger. One driver was willing but too drunk, huffed & puffed on the balloon but could not fill it. Helplessly he turned to his wife and said: "Honey, you finish...