Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your insulting remarks about Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana [TIME, Nov. 12], whom I greatly admire as a fearless and honorable gentleman, has finished TIME for me. . . . You display the same gratitude and loyalty as the average laboring man. I hate...
...years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...
Kokomo's most picturesque politician is Olin R. Holt, a thickset, debonair bachelor of 39 who wears horn-rimmed glasses and dresses to the nines. In 1924 he was out for Indiana's Governorship with Ku Klux Klan support. Denied the Democratic nomination, he returned home to cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal...
Clinching its first undisputed Big Ten title in 23 years, Minnesota's juggernaut took no chances with Wisconsin. While Indiana was spoiling Purdue's chance to tie, 17-to-6, at Lafayette, Lund, Levoir, Smith and Roark piled up five touchdowns...
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport...