Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana's Republicans, accustomed to fast moves by their bosses, could hardly believe that Bill Jenner would put his hard-driving ambition into reverse. But he came back to the state, politicked at the fish frys, backslapped the hill boys, and swore that the limit of his ambition was to be governor, not senator...
...Indiana's chubby Governor Ralph Fesler Gates, who had helped send Jenner to the Senate two years ago, could easily see through Jenner's strategy. If Jenner were elected governor, he could resign from the Senate, name his successor, and thus get control (along with Senator Homer Capehart) of most of Indiana's state and federal patronage. He let it be known that House Majority Leader Charles Halleck would get first crack at his Senate seat...
Last week, at Indiana's Republican convention in Indianapolis, Bill Jenner had his showdown. To head him off, Governor Gates (who could not legally succeed himself), had lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...
Candidate Creighton looked just like what Indiana Republicans like: a native Hoosier, American Legionnaire, father of four, solid churchgoer (Evangelical United Brethren), a self-made rich...
House committees that worked on the bill knew what they wanted-and didn't want. Indiana's Forest A. Harness (House Rules Committee) has charged that public health careerists are trying to force "socialized medicine on America by use of federal employees and Government money." What the U.S. wants in WHO, said he, is "some practical man, rather than some Government career...