Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana's Requirements...
...Marshal Ney, is sadly mistaken. In 1902 Rev. W. A. Sadtier published a book, Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal Ney was not executed, but taught school in Rowan County, N. C., and lies buried at the above mentioned place. He also said that, during his lifetime, he visited Peter Stuart Ney in North Carolina. My father was pastor of the Third Creek Church...
Night before the execution, Owensboro was host to the greatest crowd in its history. Cars poured in from neighboring counties, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri. Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers rollicked all night. "Hanging parties" were held in many a home. Sheriff Thompson's 17-year-old daughter sneaked out against her mother's orders to attend one. As before the execution of Rapist De Boe, one motorist was in such a hurry to get to the scene that he cracked up, killed himself...
...emotion aside, the principal reason for this unparalleled political excitement over Negroes was mathematical. Outside the South, Oklahoma and Maryland, there are only nine States which have more than 100,000 Negro inhabitants. In Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York live some 2,500,000 Negroes, of whom over 1,000,000 are prospective voters this year. Moreover, in these same nine States the Roosevelt-Landon battle will be waged especially hard, with the result in each perhaps turning in favor of the party which can bag the largest Black vote...
Named in the indictment was practically every prince and potentate in U. S. oildom. The list included President Edward G. Seubeit of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, President John A. Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Dan Moran of Continental Oil Co., President R. G. A: Van de Woude of Shell Union Corp., President Alexander Eraser of Wolverine Petroleum Corp., President J. F. Drake of Gulf Oil Corp., President Henry May Dawes of Pure Oil Co., President William Starling Sullivant Rogers of Texas Corp., President Earle Westwood Sinclair of Sinclair Refining Co., President Edward L. Shea of Tide Water...