Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First question put to the Chamber was whether to recommit the bill-i.e., kill it. As the roll call proceeded, every Senator except three (Florida's Pepper, Indiana's Van Nuys, Nevada's McCarran) was present on the floor. Then, while the gallery- so crowded that young Mrs. James Roosevelt had to sit on the stairs-held its breath, the votes were counted. Result was 48-10-43, against recommittal. Five minutes later, there followed the formality of voting on the bill itself. This time the count was 49-0-42 for passage, and the Senate...
...trump card in the form of charges that a good part of the pressure against the bill had been generated by a high-powered lobby financed by Publisher Frank Gannett. Convening his Lobby Investigation Committee for the first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward A. Rumely who as secretary of something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government admitted that he had spent $50,000 and sent out 800,000 letters to defeat Reorganization, in which Publisher Gannett sees a threat to Democracy. On Dr. Rumely...
...into executive session and asked him to get out of his office at once. He did so. John L. Lewis and Senator Joseph Guffey were reported to be set to test their political strength by forcing the immediate choice of Coal Commissioner Pleas (rhymes with fez) E. Greenlee of Indiana as chairman. This week the commission unanimously voted to defer selection of a permanent chairman until the President named Mr. Hosford's successor, elected Minority Commissioner Percy Tetlow, an Ohio coal miner, as temporary chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss, was moved to disillusioned comment...
Spotting the Princeton team two goals on the basis of past performances, the unbeaten Crimson team of Captain Skiddy Von Stade, Gay Dillingham, and Ben Forbes fought an uphill battle all the way. The unexpected arrival of Captain Bob Eisner from his home in Indiana bolstered the Orange and Black, the best-mounted team the Poloists have crossed mallets with this year...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Woodbury Lowery fellowship to Charles F. Edson, Jr., '81 of Chicago; Austin followship to Stanley H. Boggs of Mentone, Indiana; James Savage scholarship to Aouny W. Dejany of Jerusalem, Palestine; Gorham Thomas scholarships to John A. Bovey, Jr., '35, of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Edwin L. Goldberg of Worcester; University fellowships to Jesse F. King '37, of Ojai, California, Fred F. Plimpton, '36, of Worcester, and Robert W. Rogers, '37, of Detroit...