Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorial writers and columnists, thumbing their history books, clucked dubiously. In a front-page open letter, however, the New Dealing Chicago Sun urged the President to take "this patriotic and courageous step." The Republican New York Sun replied by quoting Indiana's Republican Representative Halleck: this is not our way of doing things...
...majority leader would have to be elected. Charlie Halleck, of Indiana, thought that was already decided: "Hell, I am the next majority leader. Clarence Brown 'hasn't got a chance." But Brown, who is National Committee Chairman Carroll Recce's man, might not know it. Joe had to hammer out harmony...
While the eight-car B. & O. special rolled west across the U.S., he lazed happily in the bulletproof car (converted originally for Franklin D. Roosevelt), chatted with his official family, slept soundly. He was already awake when the train was jolted by a pre-dawn emergency stop in Indiana (an air hose broke and clamped on the automatic braking system...
...advertisements held news, too. Autumn was the time for auctions. The Pulaski County (Indiana) Democrat heralded John Manning's public sales, three miles west of Medaryville. Manning offered two horses (smooth mouth), a white-face cow (6 years old, bred in August), 25 head of hogs, assorted farm implements, an iron butchering kettle and two electric fence chargers. The Palace Theater's advertisement in the Hills (Minn.) Crescent ballyhooed a new picture-Johnny Mack Brown (half forgotten by city audiences) in a Western titled Ghost Guns...
...major problem of the Atomic Age: the effect of radiation on the human species. Scandinavian scientists may have recognized this last week when a committee of them awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology to 55-year-old Professor Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University, leading authority on radioactive mutations. Nearly 20 years ago he discovered that fruit flies treated with X rays produced "mutated" (changed) offspring. The discovery made him famous among biologists, but the general public never took it personally. No one dreamed that in less than a generation the human race might be treated with...