Word: mid-western
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...sense, Taft's greatest political failure was his inability to use his tremendous prestige among Mid-western Republicans to lead them into a reconciliation with the rest of the party. He knew the East--he had graduated from Harvard Law, served on the Yale Corporation, and was respected in Eastern financial circles. As "the only mind in the conservative ranks," he knew the facts of the internationalist position. But he could never rise above the short-run interests of his own section. Never, that is, until the first months of the Eisenhower Administration when, acting as Eisenhower's "Prime Minster...
...most un-assisted, undergraduate organizations, the Debate Council represents the University in numerous contests with other schools. Much like an athletic team, the Council must participate in Ivy League and invitational tournaments. But even more important, the speaking contests now take place before large audiences. On the recent Mid-Western tour, for example, nearly ten thousand people heard the Harvard team...
Although the British consulate in New York readily granted the necessary extension, the student was deained incommunicado for almost three days, in the Boston detention center, and as a result was late for the opening of his classes at a large mid-western University...
...have a chance for two firsts with Hawkins," said Ulen. "Yale won't get one, unless its diving comes through." The Elis' Ken Wolch is easily the best in the East, but it is impossible to tell how he will stand up against mid-western competition...
...support plan suggested by former Secretary of Agriculture Brannan in 1949 the second method would have been used. But to prevent farmers from flooding the market, raising the cost of the support program prohibitively, the Brannan Plan included a quota system to restrict crop production. The response of Mid-Western farmers and conservative farm organizations was prompt and negative. The alleged "regimentation" and dependence on a yearly Congressional appropriation were so repulsive that the proposal had to be shelved...