Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward Rhetts, 32, is a lanky Indiana youngster who went to Washington from Harvard law school, is now executive assistant to WPB's Bill Batt. Ed Rhetts has never yet made the headlines-but if Russian soldiers knew his name, they would give him prayerful thanks every day. His job is to get WPB's Lend-Lease aid on to Russia-bound ships; Russians who come to the U.S. to get non-military help such as locomotives and machine tools knock first on Harry Hopkins' door, then wind up talking to Rhetts. He wangles the goods...
...newly recruited Indiana naval air squadron named themselves the Lombar-diers, in honor of the late Cinemactress Carole Lombard (whom Hoosier Elmer Davis called "one of Indiana's greatest contributions to culture...
Resourceful Bishop Noll got the N.C.W.C. to make the fagade of its new headquarters a windowless 90-foot Indiana limestone backdrop for his figure, with a sheer semicircular niche as the actual setting for the statue. Then he arranged for the sculptural competition, offered $3,000 for seven cash prizes, plus a contract with the winner for a 15-foot statue...
...upped genial, broad-shouldered, tall William Loren Batt, 57, from chairman of the requirements committee to be vice chairman of WPB. chief of staff to determine policies, direct operations. Batt rose from a Wabash farm and an Indiana roundhouse to head the big S.K.F. Industries (ball bearings), went into NDAC...
Newspaper stories that the Army Chaplain School would be transferred to Harvard were termed premature by University officials last night. Negotiations to move the 400-odd future military ministers from Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana to Cambridge are under way but no final agreement has yet been reached...