Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went whistling down muddy roads, slogging across gummy fields. To them nothing felt better than a thorough soaking to the skin. Let it rain! Let it fall! Let it keep on falling! One inch, two inches, three inches, four inches, five inches in parts of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio! Let it break Drought's brazen back! People would again have water to wash their dusty faces. Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields...
Last week 36,000 citizens in Indiana, 27,000 in California, 25,000 each in Texas and New York, 5,000 in Montana?300,000 all told in the nation?were seeking public office in next autumn's elections. Like 300,000 raisins they helped to make the U. S. political ferment seethe, burble, and spill over in dozens of different places...
Boss v. Champ. Outside of city politics there are few potent bosses left in the U. S.?bosses who can stand and deliver a State election as Boies Penrose in Pennsylvania or Tom Taggart in Indiana did in their day. Last week a primary showed that Missouri could still lay claim to such an oldtime boss in the person of "Big Tom" Pendergast, master of Kansas City and mixer of most of that city's concrete...
...third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants but ended in defeat and capture for Morgan and most of his men. Imprisoned in the Columbus Penitentiary, Morgan and six of his officers tunneled their way out, got safely back through the Northern lines...
...perfect combination. Messrs. Haight & Alcock had such clients as Standard Oil of Indiana and A. O. Smith Corp. But they found time for daily table-thumping conferences with Lawyer Goldstein, who did most of the drudgery. In four years, Mr. Goldstein spent 14,000 hours on the case, wore out three secretaries. He grew so preoccupied that he failed to recognize friends in the halls of his office. Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein took the case on a contingent basis-no victory, no fees, no expenses. They spent thousands from their own pockets and borrowed $210,000 from the City...