Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born in Indiana, Pauley spent his youth in Alabama, then moved to California. He earned his way through Occidental College and the University of California, got a Master's degree in business administration. A 1924 airplane crash left him bedridden for a year. Recovered, he plunged into oil operations. As head of tiny Petrol Corp. he first fought the major companies, but when Petrol Corp. had its back to the wall, he allowed a major (Signal Oil) to bail him out. At 38 he was a millionaire...
...Indiana, where Republicanism's shell is hard as a turtle's, tart, redheaded Representative Charles Marion La Follette (third cousin of Wisconsin's Bob and Phil) is the "Wild Jackass." Elected to Congress in 1942, Lawyer La Follette has startled his G.O.P. colleagues by voting for New Deal measures, dismayed them by lectures on the evils of states' rights...
...more virile and exciting New Orleans Negro jazz of Cornetist Bunk Johnson-TIME, Nov. 5.) Some of Nick's parishioners were scattered among Condon's opening-night audience, lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth child of an Indiana saloonkeeper: "the Paramount-once-a-week, glass-top-bus crowd. They stick around hoping to get into a picture. I don't mind the Hoosiers. They can come down, sit down, shut up, drink and get charged...
...press. Reporters had got wind of the fact that he had saved 80% of his "doomed" patients. All over the U.S., people read about curly-headed Judy Hackman, the Seattle two-year-old who was operated on last fortnight. They read of other blue babies in Maine, Virginia and Indiana, being prepared for a trip to Baltimore by hopeful parents...
...forgotten in Veterans' Administration hospitals. The paraplegics at Army's England General Hos pital last fortnight published the first issue of a tiny, one-page newspaper which asked editorially for "one centrally located hospital to treat all such cases." Paraplegics in Brigham (Utah), New York City and Indiana wanted the same thing...