Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boettigers' rival publisher, in a strongly Democratic area, is an Indiana Republican named Eugene C. Pulliam. In the six months since he took over the morning Republic (circ. 62,000) and afternoon Gazette (35,000), his conservative monopoly papers have become more willing to give the other side a hearing in their columns. It cost Gene Pulliam $4,000,000 to get into town; the shoe-stringing Boettigers have so far invested only around...
...England, where most of the telephone workers are not affiliated with any of the 39 striking unions, service was 99.7% of normal. Virginia, which requires unions to go through at least five weeks of conferences before striking a public utility, had service as usual. So did Indiana, which has a compulsory arbitration law to forestall such calamities as telephone...
...from the worst. It was not nearly as lethal as the 1925 twister that killed 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana...
Photographs of class members graduating in June are being arranged and work should start next week. Thomas Morse, of Boston and Lowell House, and Robert J. Clark, of Connersville, Indiana, and Kirkland House will serve respectively as new chairman and vice-chairman of the temporary class committee...
...writer has ever gone so far with so little talent as Indiana-born Theodore Dreiser. His famous novels (Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy) laid bare the seamy side of life with a bumbling crudity and literary formlessness that often alienated critics and readers alike. But he had the sincerity of a dedicated social worker and the naive, sentimental garrulousness of a kindly, troubled country neighbor. They brought him an audience and a place in U.S. literary history...