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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...
...over. They heard sacred music on the stadium organ, listened to scripture reading, recited the Apostolic Creed, pledged allegiance to the flag, roared Luther's battle hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, put $15,260 into the collection, heard Indiana's Lutheran Governor Henry F. Schricker talk about the church in the postwar world, and, best of all, saw and heard Dr. Maier's initial broadcast of the current Lutheran Hour...
Pigs v. Corn. Governors Dewey and Schricker were not exchanging mere pleasantries. As every farmer knew, the pig-corn crisis was typical of the entire U.S. food mess...