Word: logansport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beef Trust. In 1928, two big men, Frank McHale and Bowman ("Bo") Elder journeyed to the American Legion convention in San Antonio. (McHale weighs 290 Ibs., Elder 310 Ibs.) Frank McHale was a Logansport lawyer who had played mighty football for Michigan (where his scrawny little brother in Sigma Chi, Frank Murphy, hero-worshipped him), and Bo Elder was the Legion's national treasurer. To these two it was important that they get the handsome, prematurely white-haired young dean of the University of Indiana Law School elected national commander of the Legion. They did so by shrewdly lining...
Morris E. Hurley, Jr., Berkeley, Calif.; Frank B. Jourdan, Albuquerque, N. Mex.; James D. Justice, Logansport, Ind.; Malcolm G. Leybourne, Tippecanoe City, Ohio; Robert B. Loftfield, Euclid, Ohio; Duane B. Lueders, Henning, Minn.; James W. Morrison, Jr., Portland, Ore.; Mortimer S. Rayman, Chicago, Ill.; George F. Snell, Jr., Takoma Park, Md.; George R. Strange, Chicago, Ill.; Joseph H. Summers, Madisonville, Ky.; and James W.L. Moukman, St. Paul, Minn...
James D. Justice, Logansport, Indiana--Logansport High School...
...railroad enthusiasts from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Each was given a mimeographed guide sheet with minute details of the route, the histories of towns, the identity of every grade-crossing and switchback along the way. Route was southeast from Chicago, over trackage unused by passenger trains for years, to Logansport, Ind., then northeast to La Otto, southeast again to Fort Wayne. There the one-day railroaders went through the Pennsyl vania's divisional shops. Meanwhile the engine was changed from a double-header K-2 to a double-header K-4, fastest of steam engines. This power whipped...
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport...