Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman. (The President received in the Red Room, for close friends.) The characters of the day turned out to be a farmer from Morris, Minn., and his wife. Anton Ettesvold had won a competition staged by a Yankton (S. Dak.) radio station as "the typical Midwest farmer." His reward was a trip to Washington, where he was invited to the inauguration by Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Illini, with six veterans back, are among the Midwest's best. So are Iowa's Hawkeyes, Ohio State's Buckeyes, Notre Dame's Irish (whose basketball record through the years is nearly as good as its football record), and Valparaiso's altitudinous Indianians, eight of whose dozen players are 6 ft.-3 or taller. Valparaiso and its 2-year-old star, Bob Dille, might prove to be the cream of the whole crop...
...Nazi salute and once appeared in court in a pale blue satin nightdress-was teaching a night class in stenography. Lawrence ("The Brain") Dennis, top intellectual of U.S. fascism, spent his mornings browsing sedately in the Library of Congress. Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling was touring the Midwest, singing anti-Semitic and anti-rationing songs to America-First rallies...
...knew the truth of Ben Franklin's dictum that he who spits against the wind spits in his own face. He made it clear that he had no personal objection to Edward R. Stettinius Jr. In fact, most of Bill Langer's objections, in the old Midwest Senatorial tradition of denouncing Wall Street, seemed to be against Stettinius Sr. (d. 1925) and the House of Morgan to which he belonged. At last, not winded but despairing, Langer confessed: "I realize I am a lone voice in the wilderness." A few moments later, the Senate voted confirmation...
...politest dispute on record. All over the East and Midwest, motherly, well-dressed women emerged as labor leaders. The pickets outside telephone buildings sang the latest swing tunes instead of old trade-union chestnuts like Solidarity Forever...