Word: mid-western
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...Folksy mid-western geniality again reigns supreme at the Copley theatre this week in the hilarious little farce, "Your Uncle Dudley", written by two clever actor-playwrights, Messrs. Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson. All of the stereotyped elements of light, small-town comedy are introduced in the evening's parade of the ridiculous. There is the sharp-tongued old grandmother who watches fights, domestic and public, with equal zest; there is the inescapable younger brother, of suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve...
Logical enough is the Columbia-Standard community of interest, as the two companies have long dominated the Appalachian gas fields and together control some 9,000,000 gas-producing acres extending from Lake Erie to southern Kentucky. Columbia is also negotiating with Samuel Insull for joint action in supplying mid-western cities now served by the Middle West Utilities (Insull) Co. A Standard-Insull combination already exists in the famed Amarillo-to-Chicago pipe line. Thus the gas industry briskly follows the co-operative policy which became conspicuous as long ago as July 1930, when United Corp. acquired...
...commotion came word, vague at first, that President Hoover had started to Do Something about the worldwide Depression of which he had spoken so often, from which he had just again appealed in his Mid-Western speeches. For weeks he had been mulling over the situation. Germany, he knew, was in desperate straits. Ambassador Sackett had lately been home with first-hand reports and descriptions. Ambassadors Gibson and Dawes on recent White House visits had told of the bog into which Europe's economy, weighted by Germany, was sinking. Senator Morrow, just back from Germany, had brought word...
This is the second time within a year that Ann Arbor officials in a desperate attempt to uphold the belief that enforcement is working, have charged, with warrants, into students' rooms. If the mid-western university is like most others, the river is damned for one day and flows for six months...
...disgust with the usual college lecture. A veteran educator suggests that no professor be allowed to lecture until he has proved that he can bill a town, pack a hall, and satisfy people who have paid good money to hear him hold forth. A student at a famous Mid-Western university describes the lecture system as "that process by which the contents of the professor's notebook are transferred by means of the fountain pen to the student's notebook without passing through the mind of either," and recently Mr. H.G. Wells declared. "There is no need whatever...