Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentleman from Indiana. Elmer Holmes Davis, now 53, was born in Aurora, Ind., a tired little town which got along by making boxes and coffins, selling to farmers on Saturday night and keeping one eye cocked for a rise in the Ohio River. His father, the elderly, bearded president of Aurora's First National Bank, was known as the richest man in town...
Scholar from Oxford. Davis skipped quickly through Aurora's schools, went on to Indiana's Franklin College, where he picked up a nickname ("The Deacon") and every scholastic prize, got himself a Rhodes scholarship. Aurora's oldtimers, mightily impressed, still remember the day he left home for England: "He was so calm and businesslike you'd have thought he was just going up to Cincinnati...
Davis returned from Oxford with the habit of wearing his handkerchief in his sleeve. Otherwise he was unchanged: he retained his Indiana twang, a dignity Midwestern rather than British. He taught high school for a year in Indiana, went to Manhattan and a $10-a-week job with Adventure magazine, doubled his salary by moving to the New York Times...
...candidate with Brown is Robert Long, a product of Wabash College, of Crawfordsville, Indiana. A Liberal Arts student, Long is an Economics major...
...February 2, 1942, within two months of America's entry into World War II, the Chaplain School was reactivated at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, as a school for commissioned chaplains of all components of the Army of the United States. Its removal to Harvard University took place early in August of 1942, and the first classes were held on August 10th of that year