Word: indianian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Woollen. Thomas Taggart, boss Democrat of Indiana, likes to take his delegates to the national conventions lined up behind one Indianian whom they more or less seriously advance for nomination. Later he swings their votes in line behind some other section's candidate. But there is always the chance that the Indiana man will be one of the men and bring glory to Indiana and Boss Taggart...
...business, but last week Mr. Cravath and his fellow trustees were able to name the man. They had chosen and their invitation had been accepted by one Thomas Elsa Jones, a graduate student in sociology at Columbia, a young man who expects to receive his doctorate in May. An Indianian, graduated by Earlham College (Richmond, Ind.) in 1912, Mr. Jones has studied in England and at Hartford Theological Seminary; has been a missionary to Japan, a Y. M. C. A. man in Vladivostock. On June 1 he will become president of the oldest university (1866) for Negroes in the South...
...Mayor Walter A. Sims of Atlanta, who, with fitting reference to the late William Jennings Bryan, straightway declared the satisfaction it gave him to welcome to his city any movement that had for its object "the fostering of the religious beliefs of our fathers." When he had done, an Indianian, Mr. Roscoe Carpenter of Indianapolis, was conducted to the rostrum, where he soon pronounced the purpose for which the company was gathered...
...writers. So many are the literary people who have come from Indiana that when last week the Indiana Club of Manhattan wanted to give a dinner to Hewitt H. ("Indiana") Howland, new editor of the Century Magazine, it was decided to limit the guests to those well-known Indianian push-pens whose names begin with...