Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana's ham-handed Homer Capehart, the phonograph tycoon, could not wait to don the toga. Six weeks before his senatorial term begins, he bustled into Washington, promptly called a press conference. To newsmen, he was vague on one subject-his international views. He was more specific on another: his Senate committee ambitions. He has his eye on such topflight assignments as the Finance, Commerce, Naval and Military Affairs Committees. On each of these subjects, he confided modestly, he is something of an expert. Back in their offices, the 15 newsmen who had shown up for this "sneak preview...
...Democratic sweep was such that Franklin Roosevelt had but a few lame ducks: Senators Guy Gillette of Iowa, Sam Jackson of Indiana and most notable of all, Henry Wallace. All the U.S. would watch to see what kind of job Mr. Wallace gets...
...Indiana had a new Senator, beaming, round-faced Republican Homer Capehart, the juke-box king, who nosed out homespun Governor Henry F. Schricker...
...Columbus, Ohio, 56,380 watched unbeaten Ohio State and its great halfback, 23-year-old dental student Les Horvath, trip Indiana, 21-to-7, and head toward the Big Ten championship...
...Indiana. Hulking, heavy-jowled millionaire Republican Homer Capehart, who manufactures juke boxes and super-phonographs and is experimenting with television, was having trouble. His opponent for the Senate: mild, homespun Democratic Governor Henry Schricker, 61, who has eaten fried chicken in almost every church basement in Indiana. Democrat Schricker shrewdly avoids discussing Term IV in Indiana...