Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parents of U.S. college students had a chance last week to find out how the students spend their money. Indiana University's Assistant Professor of Economics Mary Mazeppa Crawford had studied Indiana spending to the decimal place (Student Folkways and Spending at Indiana University, 1940-41, A Study in Consumption; Columbia University Press; $3.50).* A good state university, neither very rich nor very poor, Indiana could be considered an average guinea pig. Sample Crawford findings...
...Bloomington, the university seat, is about 92 miles from Muncie, scene of Middletown, Robert and Helen Lynd's sociological study which, in 1929, made that Indiana town a symbol of U.S. life. Notable Indiana alumni: Wendell Willkie, '13, Paul V. McNutt...
Appearance: Excellent. In looks, Bricker is nearly as good a candidate as Indiana's Paul McNutt, without the bril-liantined platinum handsomeness that annoys plainer men. He looks as solid as his reassuring Ohio colleague Robert Taft, without Taft's embarrassing stiffness. He dresses as well as New York's Tom Dewey, without seeming the least dapper...
...Indiana, Governor Henry Frederick Schricker told the ICC his State had already lost four big industries-pulp-board, limestone, furniture, stoves-to southern competition. Governor Schricker then urged that the Commission exclude all sectional politics, thus echoing many a previous Midwest Governor...
...elected to the Committee in order of their total number of votes were Richard W. Mechem of Washington, Peter Garland of Buzzards Bay, James E. McNulty, Jr. of Oak "Park, Illinois, Donald W. Richards of Providence, Rhode Island, John W. Fisher of Weston, Frank D. Bixler of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Robert T. P. Storer, Jr. of Cambridge...