Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case any farmers missed the point, Harry Truman blamed the G.O.P. directly when the price of Illinois corn dropped from $2.29 to 96? a bushel in September. Ahead of and behind the President, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan also roamed the Midwest, hammering home the same argument. Candidate Dewey, on the other hand, failed to give any specific assurances on the future of price supports. Besides, many farmers just liked the prosperity they had gained in Democratic years...
...effort to inject some commotion, both parties revived the old-time torchlight procession. Harry Truman began the week with a monster rally in Chicago, where Boss Jake Arvey's minions kindled enough flame and fireworks to burn down the whole town. Tom Dewey, after another dash through the Midwest, would conclude his campaign at a Madison Square Garden rally which would be heralded by the red flares of a Manhattan parade...
...President, well pleased, went off on his political trip to the Midwest, leaving Assistant President Steelman to bring the document to flower and deliver it to Defense Secretary James...
...unlimited-substitutions rule that favored the big teams. Lesser teams might talk about how they held back the giant for a quarter or two, as many of them did, but by the final gun the team with superior reserves of talented specialists (either offensive or defensive) won. In the Midwest, there seemed no end to the invincibility of Notre Dame and Michigan, both unbeaten since 1946. Only slightly less impressive were North Carolina and Army. The pity was that none of these four would play each other, so that comparisons were at best guesswork, and at worst a matter...
...crack crime reporter, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's husky Theodore C. Link, 43, knew plenty of crooks-and how to use them. For 22 years, off & on, he had tapped many of them for crime tips, notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That...