Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional followers had any real enthusiasm for the Supreme Court proposal which he had tossed to them to carry out. On that issue a whole division of Democratic Senators were kicking in the traces: Connally of Texas, Clark of Missouri, Bailey of North Carolina, Van Nuys of Indiana, not to mention old revolters such as Glass. Burke and Wheeler. And finally, on the other great issue of the day, the Sit-Down, they were irritated by his bland refusal to take any stand whatever. The President's great & good friend James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was responsible...
...Dear General: I wish to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of Feb. 15 in which you express your opposition to the President's proposal concerning the Supreme Court. . . ." Thus wrote Indiana's pro-Roosevelt Senator Sherman ("Shay") Minton in a letter addressed to General Arthur St. Clair, Indianapolis...
...Bowie, Md. racetrack Vice President John Nance Garner, Senators Nathan Lynn Bachtnan of Tennessee and Sherman Minton of Indiana bet $2 each on Minton, a rank outsider, won $24.90 apiece when Minton came in first...
...Advantage: passengers to Boston save 20 min. ¶ Next to Newark, busiest U. S. airport is Chicago's Municipal Field. Chicagoans have long been upset by fear they might lose their air predominance because the airport was made hazardous to bigger planes by tracks of the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad across one end. For two years Mayor Edward J. Kelly has waged a battle to force the railroad out. Last week the two finally came to terms. The railroad agreed to move at once; Mayor Kelly agreed to spend some $350,000 buying a half-interest...
...eggs became a fullfledged commodity in the Midwest when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, No. 1 U. S. headquarters for egg speculation, admitted them to spot and future trading.* Almost exclusively a U. S. industry, egg freezing is clone by about 200 companies with plants in the egg belt of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, California, South Dakota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas. Their "breaking season," which corresponds to the laying season for hens in the early spring and summer, began early this year because of unseasonable winter laying (TIME, Feb. 1). Biggest U. S. egg freezers are Standard Brands and Ovson...