Word: heartlands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...invitations that began rolling in to the Soviet embassy in Washington. Mayor Richardson Dilworth invited him to Philadelphia. In Columbus, Ohio State University alumni eagerly plotted to get Khrushchev to the football stadium for the Duke game. Officials in Marshalltown, Iowa urged him to visit their town "in the heartland of America." Invitations to make speeches poured in from an assortment of clubs, ranging from the Young Republicans in New York City to Rotary in Crossett, Ark. And inevitably, an invitation was on the way from the Chamber of Commerce in Moscow, Idaho...
...predominantly Protestant South is still the heartland of anti-Catholic attitudes. In 1928, the last year when religion was a big national political issue, Quaker Herbert Hoover soundly defeated Al Smith, a Catholic, by more than 6,000,000 votes, and seven states (Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas. Virginia) split from the Solid South to vote Republican. The Southern trend, according to Gallup...
...main nuclear punch in the early 1960s. Backing up SAC will be nuclear submarines armed with Polaris solid-fuel intermediate-range missiles, plus IRBMs deployed in Western Europe, plus U.S. fighter-bombers, with a mighty nuclear wallop, on alert at bases scattered around the perimeter of the Communist heartland. But what made the headlines was the missile gap, and the public confusion was greater than ever...
...Cowles family picked tough ground for missionary work. In tradition, at least, the nation's heartland has long been indifferent to foreign news, except in time of war. Buzzing gadflies in this calm atmosphere, the Cowles papers go far beyond filling their front pages with stories on international affairs from their hardworking five-man Washington bureau headed by Dick Wilson, 53. Their editorial pages take positions that are unusual for the Midwest and downright surprising for Republican publishers: they have damned the policies of Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, praised Dean Acheson, bemoaned Chiang Kai-shek (a "lonely...
...traditional Republican heartland between the Mississippi and the Rockies, Republicans lost eight House seats, two Senate places, at least two governorships (Nebraska is still in doubt). High on the list of causes: the political unpopularity of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Taking over in 1953, Benson inherited a farm-policy mess that saw prices slumping badly while the Government poured billions into the farm economy. Trying to reverse the policy of farm government-by-handout, Benson was blamed when the agricultural recession continued. By this year, when the farm economy dramatically improved (TIME, May 12), it was too late...