Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editor of a Midwest newspaper asked me a question the other day," wrote Columinst Max 'When Lerner in the York Post. " 'When Kennedy ran in 1960,' he said, 'everyone was discussing Kennedy as a Catholic: there was a big to-do about it. Why doesn't anyone today write about Goldwater as a Jew? Is the Jewish theme more taboo in politics than the Catholic theme?' " To Lerner, who is a Jew himself, the question insisted upon an answer, and he was quick to supply...
DuBois was not the only prominent Negro then at Harvard. In this era Harvard was throwing off its strictly New England outlook and giving scholarships to people in the Midwest and the South. "In my class was a black man from St. Louis who was one of the best speakers of English That I ever knew, Tunent Morgan," DuBois recalled. "When it came to the election of class officers, always the class officers had been Lowells and Cabots and Saltonsalls and so forth and the class revolted and elected Morgan as the class orator which was unprecedented. They talked about...
...ships, and late last year initiated a threeyear, $750 million improvement program concentrating in other areas. Rising behind the Indiana dunes near Chicago is a $275 million finishing plant that will give Bethlehem, which has long been the strongest supplier in the East, a major hold in the Midwest...
...campaign -and got promptly turned down. Then Rocky turned to Connecticut's Meade Alcorn, another former national chairman, and an old Dartmouth classmate. Alcorn waited more than a month to give his answer-which was no. Last week the Rockefeller people said that they were canvassing the Midwest for a campaign manager...
...three years. Most often the amateurs lose, but the tales of what might have been keep them coming back like horserace fans after a daily-double killing. They were also betting last week that the troubles in Malaysia would send rubber futures climbing, that rain and winds in the Midwest would hurt the soybean harvest, and that the world shortages that sent sugar soaring earlier this year would do it again...