Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana, young (28) Philip Willkie stepped onto the first rung of the political ladder by winning the Republican nomination to the state legislature from Rush and Henry counties (which have not gone Democratic since the Civil War). The magic of the Willkie name helped some; but the main reason for his nearly 5-to-1 victory over a candidate who had not been defeated in 35 years was his own tireless stumping: 7,800 miles by automobile; 16 hours a day of doorbell-ringing...
...years, while their clinic flourished, the old brothers stiff-armed the law. Charged with federal mail fraud, they began to send out their literature by Railway Express. In 1947, the State of Indiana started action to take away their licenses. Dr. Peter fought the case through the courts, finally lost last January...
Franz Czisch refused to protest the election. "It is no good," he said. "Even if Konrad is removed I would not continue the job. The people have spoken." Charles M. La Follette, former Congressman from Indiana, now Military Governor of Würt-temburg-Baden, ordered an immediate investigation, expressed "grave concern...
Wrong Guess. Indiana-born Correspondent Planner, 56, had not waited so long for her glass of champagne. She was honored last year for her painstaking, 25-year effort "to explain France to the Americans," but missed the presentation ceremony...
Acting under the Taft-Hartley Act, the President appointed a fact-finding board. It was composed of Federal Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime New Dealing Senator from Indiana; Mark Ethridge, liberal publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and Dr. George W. Taylor, professor of labor relations at the Wharton School of Finance, onetime chief of the War Labor Board. It was a board which could hardly be called prejudiced against labor. Taylor was a veteran of many coal disputes...