Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson Network took office last night. Members of the board and their official positions are Bernard J. McMohan '42, of Adams House and New York City, Chairman; Harrison F. Lyman, Jr. '42, of Winthrop House and Winchester, Production Manager; John C. Stone '42, of Adams House and Evansville, Indiana, Technical Director; Robert S. Kieve '43, of Dunster House and Weehawken, N.J., Program Manager; and John McG. Cochrane, Jr. '43, of Little Hall and Brookline, Chief Engineer...
...President asked his advisers to give him the name of a man to start planning the Home Front. Lean, stringy Harry Hopkins submitted the name of lean, stringy Wayne Coy, 37, a long-faced, spectacled young man who was once chief of WPA in Indiana, and who was brought to Washington in 1939 by Indianian Paul V. McNutt...
...Indiana University historical murals at last installed and paid for, swart, swashbuckling little Missourian Thomas Benton wrote the university a bread-&-butter letter. He thanked the building's architects for the "great gilded spittoons which they have placed to hide as much of the paintings as possible," since "spittoons of Indiana's tobacco-chewing era are more appropriate to my murals, even when they hide them, than Greco-Roman statues or Mayan reliefs...
Britain's Government and press racked their brains, wondered what to do with youthful criminals. Homes for delinquent children were overflowing, convicted moppets were being crowded in prisons with hardened felons. Britons rubbed their eyes and thought of Indiana's John Dillinger when one day last week five young desperadoes broke out of Borstal prison, piled into the Governor's car, and made...
...drama hinged on whether Mrs. Abbott No. 2 could prove her race. In Chicago a cousin of childless Publisher Abbott filed petition to oust Mrs. Abbott from the Abbott estate and control of the waning Defender. Grounds: that she is white, hence was illegally married six years ago in Indiana (whose laws prohibit miscegenation...