Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells of Indiana...
...Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages in 20 minutes-not bad." Two days later the bill that Congressional tax experts have been working on since last autumn catapulted through the Senate without a record vote...
Last week a new flood of scientific ideas and gadgets descended upon the musical world. Gadget No. 1 was the chromatic stroboscope. Conceived by Indiana University's Professor Ora L. Railsback and developed by Physicist Robert William Young and Engineers Allen Loomis and O. Hugo Schuck. it was demonstrated at the Music Educators' National Conference in St. Louis. The Young, Loomis & Schuck stroboscope, which sits on a table, blinks and flickers when anybody sings out of tune in its presence, makes caterwauling detectible even to the deaf...
More successful in the second half of this job, Author Josephson has dusted off dozens of half-forgotten heroes: fast-thinking James G. Elaine of Maine; sardonic Roscoe Conkling; crippled Oliver Morton of Indiana, who ran his organization "as the country schoolmaster ran his school"; portly Zachariah Chandler of Detroit, who wanted to "raise a wall of fire" between the U. S. and Great Britain, and who advised Republican wives not to sleep with Democratic husbands...
Thus did Washington's station WOL, hooked up for the occasion with Cincinnati's big WLW, last week present some free radio time to Indiana's 73-year-old Representative Finly H. Gray for the first of a series of addresses on money and depression. "Mr. Speaker and fellow members of Congress," hopefully began gaunt, gold-toothed Representative Gray, who had informed his colleagues by letter and in the Congressional Record of his intention to take the air to harangue them at greater length than even his spectral appearance has ever induced them to listen...