Word: kokomo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olin R. Holt of Kokomo, Ind. might have been among the mayors testifying in Washington had he not been turned out of office by Kokomo's voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...
...Painting: Clifford Edgar Jones of Kokomo, Ind., a student at the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis. He brought his school its first Prix de Rome for Carnival, a lively, crowded circus scene...
...field where accessories often outsell salesmen, this phenomenal boom did not escape the alert eye of General Motors Corp. Last week GM bought Crosley Radio's automobile radio division at Kokomo, Ind., announced that, at additional cost, it would install radios as initial equipment in new cars. Hitherto General Motors cars, like many another make, have been built to take receiving sets should the customer buy one as an extra. No newcomer to radio, General Motors some years ago made home sets in a short-lived venture which was liquidated...
...Kokomo started a decline in the early 1920's. The gas had failed. The Haynes and Apperson factories closed. But Kokomo's 32,000 inhabitants still point with pride to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.'s Kokomo plant, to a dozen metallurgical and machine works...
...Kokomo's most picturesque politician is Olin R. Holt, a thickset, debonair bachelor of 39 who wears horn-rimmed glasses and dresses to the nines. In 1924 he was out for Indiana's Governorship with Ku Klux Klan support. Denied the Democratic nomination, he returned home to cultivate his Baptist and American Legion following, build a local machine. In 1930 his political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal...