Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years ago in southern Indiana lived an Orange County farmer named Ballard, who had five sons. One of them, Edward, early showed enterprise. He used to deliver the laundry which his mother did for people who were taking the cure at neighboring French Lick. Soon he was graduated into a saloon in adjoining West Baden, next became a croupier in a gambling room run by a Negro in the West Baden Springs Hotel. In his mid-twenties he bought the gambling club for himself. After a decade or so more, he bought Brown's Hotel in French Lick...
Situated across the street from the great French Lick Springs Hotel belonging to Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart, Brown's prospered. Spring and autumn, businessmen and politicians of the Midwest flocked to French Lick to drink Pluto water, rest, golf, enjoy themselves losing money at Brown's. Illinois' politicians still confer there regularly...
Convicted a year ago of conspiring to sell a West Point appointment for $1,000, hunted in the District of Columbia, Indiana and California after they failed to appear in Washington, D. C. to start serving jail terms of four months to a year, California's onetime Representative John Henry Hoeppel ("Colonel Hoopla") and his son Charles Jerome were nabbed by Federal detectives in Richmond, Va. Last summer Congressman Hoeppel lost his district's Democratic renomination...
...endearingly about Senator Norris, weapons: three speeches a day, a lifetime of struggles that has conferred on rugged farm-trained body the mantle of honest Senator Norris college days were days of postponment. Born in Ohio, he worked on farms during summer. Student at Baldwin University in Ohio Northern Indiana Normal School, he taught science during intervening years in order to continue school. In 1883 he received a law degree from Valparaiso University, but had to teach another year to pass law library. He was one of the senators to vote against America's entry in the war. Republican...
...recipients are Ralph B. Murphy '39, of New Albany, Indiana; William M. Murphy '38, of Flushing, N. Y.; John S. Murphy '40, of Fulton, Ky; and Vincent L. Murphy '40, of New York City...