"indie", adj., 1930 (antedates OED2 1942--)

[Joel S. Berson]

Variety, 1930 Nov. 12, p. 5, col. 3.

"Horowitz-Myers Asks for Censors /
Film Industry Boils Over Display Advertisements by Indie Exhib in
Houston Papers Traducing Picture Business---Uses Myers' Quotation"

antedates OED2 "indie, adj."  1942--.  [The OED has a draft addition
1993 with a 1928 use as a noun.]

Joel

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