Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Hall office; $10,000 worth of telephone and tapping equipment had been found in the detective's Yonkers home. A plot was afoot, said O'Dwyer, to listen in on the telephones of several score of city officials (including his) and some big wheels in the Midwest. A prominent someone had given Ryan...
...Norris' home in Coral Gables, Fla. and came to a gentlemen's agreement. Despite Mike Jacobs' brave words and innate wariness, it looked like Wirtz & Co. had stolen a long lead. After nearly 35 years, control of heavyweight boxing might shift from Manhattan to the Midwest and there might be heavyweight title fights in Cleveland and Chicago for a change. But nobody knew how long it would be before the New York State Boxing Commission and the rest of the U.S. agreed on the next world champion...
...Union Station in the care of Monsignor Curtis Tiernan. Some of the ladies felt a little trepidation. Pug-nosed, cheerful Monsignor Tiernan, the boys' old World War I chaplain, had never been a stern watchdog and he didn't look like one. His charges-staid-looking Midwest businessmen-were kicking up a mild and happy uproar when the train pulled out. They were the boys of Harry Truman's old Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F., on their way to Washington for the big show...
...friends call him, is a reserved, blue-eyed boss who thinks fast, talks slow and never wastes his time pounding the desk. Slightly jowly, with a pleasant smile, he has neither bombast nor bulk (he is 5 ft. 10 in., 175 lbs.). He talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop as if bucking a breeze. Both his tie and his crop of snow-white hair are usually a little askew, but his mind is as precise as an engineer's slipstick...
...most articulate spokesman of the Fair Deal among the newcomers was Minnesota's brash, bustling young Senator Hubert H. (for Horatio) Humphrey Jr., 37, a hardworking, fast-talking fireball from the Midwest...