Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoosiers. To us he was a conquering hero come home, king for a day, featured profusely by the three city papers (two of which are Republican). And why not-on a hot day when there's nothing else to talk about ! Synthetic ballyhoo still doesn't blind Indiana's majority to the shallowness of our self-satisfied Adonis...
...America," cracked an observer, and at White House press conference, reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt sly questions about his appointee's chances for the 1940 nomination. This irritated the President, who lectured his hearers about reading political implications into the appointment. But he, too, was sly. He explained that Indiana's McNutt should not be regarded more seriously as a candidate than any of a dozen other charming young men. What their friends in the "sticks" might try to do for them, said he, was beyond their control. Thus, for the moment, was Candidate McNutt relegated to the shadow...
...What to do about Indiana's white-headed Paul McNutt, first and boldest Democratic candidate for Franklin Roosevelt's job (TIME, July 10), was a question which Mr. Roosevelt answered last week by inviting Mr. McNutt to become, after resigning as High Commissioner to the Philippines, director of the new, consolidated Federal Security Agency. In that post, at Washington. Candidate McNutt could be kept under surveillance and control, throttled if necessary. Or he could be built up as heir-apparent if that seemed more desirable. Able, ambitious executive that he is, he could be counted on in either...
Another man who will be no great help to McNutt is Indiana's senior Senator, Frederick Van Nuys. When the New Deal called for a purge last year, McNutt & Co. tried to read Senator Van Nuys out of their party. When they found Mr. Van Nuys too tenacious, they had to read him back in again, which shamed and embittered Governor Cliff Townsend, who was told off to do both readings...
...American Legion connections are nationwide, and the Legion membership is now in its political prime. He has an executive record uncomplicated by such national issues as Relief, Money, Neutrality. Above all he has absolute mastery of Indiana through a machine that is as old-fashioned in its efficiency as it is modern in its setup. Indiana has only 14 electoral votes to offer, only 28 delegates in the National Democratic Convention. But Paul McNutt can count on delivering these white chips with greater certainty than even Cordell Hull can be sure of Tennessee or Jack Garner of Texas. At this...