Word: schricker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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INDIANA. As expected, popular, tobacco-chewing Democrat Henry F. Schricker, 65, who made a good record as governor from 1941 to 1945 but was barred by Indiana's constitution from a second consecutive term, defeated frosty Hobart Creighton, one of the country's biggest poultrymen but a shy campaigner...
...Indiana had a new Senator, beaming, round-faced Republican Homer Capehart, the juke-box king, who nosed out homespun Governor Henry F. Schricker...
Indiana. Hulking, heavy-jowled millionaire Republican Homer Capehart, who manufactures juke boxes and super-phonographs and is experimenting with television, was having trouble. His opponent for the Senate: mild, homespun Democratic Governor Henry Schricker, 61, who has eaten fried chicken in almost every church basement in Indiana. Democrat Schricker shrewdly avoids discussing Term IV in Indiana...
...Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...
...Governor Schricker had taken a terrible amount of advice. The phones had been ringing for four days. Three calls were already awaiting him when he reached his office the morning after Senator Van Nuys's death. Shortly the telegrams started coming. The man for the post was the Supreme Governor of the Loyal Order of Moose. The man for the post was the State Democratic Chairman. The woman for the post was a fine local lady with eight children. Labor plugged the State Democratic Chairman. Then A.F. of L. and C.I.O. both plugged...