Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kappa) at the University of Southern California, later studied at Boston University, Harvard, M.I.T., in Japan, China, India. After eleven years of pastoral work in California, he went back to his alma mater as professor of social ethics, then to Boston University, from which he was elected President of Indiana's DePauw University. He was popular with students (because he permitted dancing), unpopular with the American Legion (because he abolished the R.O.T.C.). At 44 he was elected Bishop - Methodism's youngest...
...Action Committee; the next, in Baltimore. By week's end he was in Hartford. He held a lengthy press conference, spoke at a G.O.P. luncheon and dinner, met most of the members of Connecticut's unpledged delegation to the national convention. When the news came in that Indiana's G.O.P. convention had refused to instruct its delegates for Tom Dewey, John Bricker said: "They won't be stampeded. The convention must be a deliberative...
...more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York's Roosevelt-baiting John Taber, No. 1 congressional critic of OWI, supported the boost in appropriations. Most impressive display to Republicans: a copy of a Turkish newspaper...
...making of the Red Skeltons, Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes (which he disliked), George Ade was an almost forgotten name. Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that Humorist Bob Benchley had to repair to the Stork Club to forget, after hearing a CBS announcer tell about the death of "the Indiana writer, George...
...Iris jaw belligerently, and started to come back. Overnight he made $3,000,000 in a pool in Sinclair stock. He built an 800-mile pipeline from Drumright, Okla. to Chicago, and netted a company profit of $28,000,000 by selling it to his archrival, Standard Oil of Indiana. Shortly after, he made a deal with John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had fired Standard's Colonel Robert Stewart for his part in the Dome scandal, to merge his fast-failing Prairie Oil Companies with Sinclair. Sinclair magnanimously called the new corporation Consolidated Oil, leaving his name...