Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young man (45), a Far Westerner...
...From Indiana: I spent Sunday at Ernie's old home with his father, "Pop" Pyle, and his Aunt Mary Bales. It is a comfortable old white farmhouse on a dusty road three miles north of Dana. Several relatives and neighbors dropped in, and as usual the conversation turned toward Ernest (as his father and aunt call him, not Ernie). Aunt Mary got to talking about how Ernest on his last trip home told her that he didn't feel above any of them when she asked him how it felt to be a celebrity, and Hazel Frist...
These were sound journalistic groundings. But when he entered Indiana University in 1919, "Shag" Pyle had not decided much about his career except that he did not want to spend his life "looking at the south end of a horse going north...
...signed up for journalism because he had heard it was a snap course. The high spot of his college career was a trip to Japan with the Indiana University base ball team. No athlete, he thumbed his way to the coast, worked his passage across the Pacific as a cabin boy. A few months before he was to graduate, his restlessness grew too much for him. He quit school and went to work for the La Porte...
...best that can be said about "Home in Indiana" is that it contains a very revealing bathing suit and the best trotting races this side of Old Orchard...