Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borderline States, giving Roosevelt less than a 55% vote: Indiana. Iowa. Kansas, South Dakota. Illinois, Nebraska. Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire...
...Biggest Roosevelt loss: 10.41% in South Carolina. Chief areas of Roosevelt losses: 1) the Solid South, 2) South Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana...
...keep cool during their sweating, sweltering sessions each arriving delegate was handed a cardboard fan. On its face he found a gaudy chromo entitled "No. 528 Nature." On its back appeared the square, smiling countenance of Henry Lester Smith. 58, Dean of the School of Education at Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.). At the week's end grateful delegates elected Dean Smith their president for next year...
...zealous, well-disciplined fathers of the Society of Jesus number 4,700 in the U. S.-more than in any other nation including Catholic Italy and Catholic Spain. Most intellectual of Catholic orders, the Jesuits are famed for their colleges. Last week in their Chicago Province (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee and Illinois) there was pious rejoicing, for a rich Indianan named Edward Ballard had just given the Jesuits a sumptuous $7,000,000 hotel to turn into a new college...
...even a churchgoer. Born of poor parents some 60 years ago in the hills near French Lick, he made his way alone, accumulated a fortune in the hotel business and in American Circus Corp. At West Baden, a mile from French Lick where the late Thomas ("Tom") Taggart, Indiana's longtime Democratic boss, operated a famed spa (Pluto Water), Mr. Ballard built a handsome 500-room hotel, surrounded by 585 landscaped acres. Until the Depression West Baden Springs Hotel prospered. With the decrease in business, Mr. Ballard made ready to sell out and retire. In casting about...