Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chimed in Governor Paul Vories McNutt of Indiana, whose parole board once freed John Dillinger, and from one of whose county jails Dillinger escaped: "The ordinary man is not satisfied with the present-day administration of justice and does not hesitate...
...sitting Democrats in Congress were renominated, including Mrs. Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute who was opposed by the local Democratic organization but backed by the A. F. of L. Governor Paul V. McNutt apparently failed to get his picked slate of delegates elected to the State convention which will choose a Democratic nominee to run against Senator Arthur R. Robinson next November. The victory went to Reuben Earl Peters, onetime State Chairman, who will probably be Indiana's Democratic candidate for the Senate...
...educators' conferences, observers noted one significant difference. With the breakdown of local support, educators have turned almost unanimously to cry for Federal subsidy. Last week conferring citizens were inclined to think that Education's salvation lay in the State. Echoed by Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt, Citizen Alfred E. Smith called (by proxy) for State support of schools, warned against Federal control. Wrote he: "It is axiomatic in American Government that control follows support. Men may cry Federal aid without Federal control but so declaring does not determine the outcome. . . . Whoever pays the fiddler calls...
Said a judge in Crown Point: "This case is beginning to smell." The resignation of Sheriff Lillian Holley, from whose jail Dillinger escaped, was demanded by the county board which threatened to appeal to Governor McNutt if she refused. Democrats throughout Indiana feared that the public reaction to Dillinger's escape would cost their party a fat wad of votes in the next election. Ridicule, most dangerous of all political weapons, was already at work. A Captain of the State Police received a book entitled How to Be a Detective...
...before from Indiana Penitentiary and kidnapped a sheriff, congratulated themselves on having tuned in on the capture. Many a policeman's wife telephoned headquarters to learn if her husband had been wounded. The sheriff of nearby Cook County. III. doubled his highway patrol. Indiana's Governor McNutt telephoned to learn what was happening. He was told that the whole thing was a fake...