A Salute to all of our veterans on Veteran's Day.
See attached photo of Monon steam loco 452 painted in camo colors, apparently at Shops. Loco is decorated as the Paul V. McNutt American Legion Special.
McNutt served as Indiana Dep't Commander of the American Legion in 1927, and was national commander of the Am. Legion from 1928 to 1929. McNutt entered politics in 1930, serving as the keynote speaker of the Democratic State Convention. He won the 1932 Democratic gubernatorial nomination and was sworn into the governor's office on January 9, 1933. During his tenure state governmental agencies were restructured from 169 departments to 8.
Later he was the administrator of the Federal Security Administration from 1939 to 1945, was the chairman of the War Manpower Commission from 1942 to 1945, and and served as the first U.S. ambassador to the Philippine Republic from 1946 to 1947.
