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Attorney General Cummings whose men caught John Dillinger and Indiana's Governor McNutt, whose men let him escape, talked about crime. Madam Secretary Perkins urged unemployment insurance; and President Stanley King of Amherst College warned against rushing headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session...
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...