Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commendation was given to the 21 year old private and politician by Brigadier-General Paul B. Clemens, commanding general of the 7th Service Command of Omaha, Nebraska. Stone was recently elected to the Indiana Legislature and is the nation's youngest law maker...
After his election, Stone did not expect to be able to assume his position in the Indiana Legislature since his duties with the Army would keep him from the inauguration, but following a subsequent injury from a train wreck, he was able to attend the inauguration ceremonies during his convalescence...
...Indiana (28): "The Republican State organization is against Willkie, with four or five strong exceptions. In State headquarters hang the pictures of every prominent Republican, from Abraham Lincoln on. The only ones missing are onetime Governor Ed Jackson, who was tried and acquitted of bribery; the late Governor Warren T. McCray, who served a Federal prison sentence for using the mails to defraud-and Wendell Willkie. . . . Yet among Indiana voters, Willkie has greater support than any other potential 1944 candidate...
...Acting for the estate of oil-rich Edward Stephen Harkness, oldtimers Dillon, Read & Co. offered 50,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana at 25⅜, happily watched it go to hundreds of investors...
...selection of the Indiana liberal was a telling blow to the Robert Taft, Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon school of Old Guard conservatism. It came as a popular reaction against a policy that had cooly managed to avoid action during the early depression, that had humiliated the party in 1936, and had risen to hamstring preparedness. Clearly, the obstructionist conservatives were on the outs with the popular interests of the party, still the die-hards had fight left in them and set to work preparing for the second round...