Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa, since 1950, authorized payment of $3,000,000 of Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund money to the fund's insurance brokers in fees and commissions. The brokers were the wife and son of Paul Dorfman-"the corrupt labor leader who introduced [Hoffa] to Midwest mob society." The Dorfmans had no experience in insurance, and no office space "until a few months before Hoffa successfully maneuvered the insurance business to them early...
...some TIME correspondents it was a pleasant July assignment: round up the full perspective of the U.S.'s 181 million-acre National Forests for this week's color story in National Affairs. Through the green trees of East, Midsouth, Midwest and West they went to talk to some of the nation's outstanding forest rangers...
...more Democratic Governors (TiME. July 6), and even Senators, were threatening to run as favorite sons. The way to win public support, he made clear, is to run big in a key state. And nothing looked more key-or more appealing-than Ohio, with its cross section of Midwest industry and agriculture and its tradition of independent voting...
Southern Baptists, Arkansas-born Dr. Smith pointed out, have 2,600 churches in areas which 20 years ago were looked upon as Northern's private preserve-mostly in the Midwest and the Southwest. And it is in just these areas that Southern Baptism has been growing fastest. "Although the overall gain in membership for Southern Baptists in 1958 was only 2.7%, our gains in the 'invaded' states were from five to ten times as large as the average...
Among the score of groups that have assayed the Anaconda papers, the most likely buyer is the Midwest's loosely knit, ten-paper Lee syndicate.† Founded by A. (for Alfred) W. Lee in 1890, the chain is now handled by his nephew, Lee Loomis, 74, who lives in Mason City, Iowa, presides over a tidy little empire that is generally pro-Republican, but allows its members to play the news as staidly or sensationally as they like. The reported bid of the Lee papers for the copper chain: some...