Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...referee had hit one fighter with a stool. In the corner, Willkie's handlers wept (some of them crocodile tears) or swore. But the bearlike man from Indiana wouldn't admit he was licked. Even veteran newshawks begged him to cut down on his extraordinarily grueling speaking schedule. Smiling, he upped the pace, talked more, louder, longer. More important, he began to say things that...
...political phenomenon that escaped the attention of political observers in Washington, but was beginning to percolate into the newshawks who hung around the lobby of the Lollis Hotel, was that Rushville and Indiana were accepting Wendell Willkie back as their own. The man who two months ago was president of a billion-dollar Wall Street corporation, and lived on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, sat under the trees on his lawn and strolled around Rushville like a native. Willkie demurred when police (including two courtesy plain-clothes men sent by New York City's police commissioner) insisted on fencing...
...States where those votes lie thickest are Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wisconsin, Connecticut. Willkie could take cheer from the fact that the last Gallup poll gave him all but one of those States...
Wendell Willkie's acceptance speech was behind him, the judgments on it were made and sealed, when he next faced a crowd in Indiana. The judgments were that the Elwood speech was a great deal better than its delivery, that its content would be remembered after its slurred syllables were forgotten. The next crowd Wendell Willkie addressed was not the exacting, sweating multitude which he had numbed and thrilled at Elwood. Before him last week, in the Memorial Park near his wife's home at Rushville, were 10,000 townsmen and countryfolk who simply wanted a look...
...dust on the temporary dirt road to Callaway Park blotted out everything three cars ahead. When the band struck up Back Home in Indiana as he appeared, the crowd made the trees shake with their racket. Away from the speaker's stand, as far as he could see, stretched the shirt-sleeved crowd, under the maples and oaks whose lower branches were cut away to lengthen the view. Sunlight filtered through the green upper branches and pierced the dust that rose in the grove. The crowd cheered through Representative Charles Halleck's introduction of Speaker Joe Martin, cheered...