Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Railway. For farmers and factories along the C. & N. W.'s 10,702mile, nine-state route, the settlement came none too soon. Since 1,000 telegraphers walked out to protest the elimination of small stations-and the obsolescent jobs in them-by the fourth longest U.S. railroad, the Midwest has lost millions in unshipped crops and unfilled orders...
...Republican hopes for congressional gains in the Midwest are pinned partly on the belief that farmers are unhappy about federal farm policy, now administered by a Democratic Administration. This belief was bolstered by a Minnesota poll showing that only 35% of the state's farmers approve of the way Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, a former Minnesota Governor, is performing his duties...
...Southern fortress that will make the Democratic difference. In New York, the nation's most populous state. Democrats seem to be in a hopeless state of disarray; Incumbent Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits are about the safest bets anywhere for reelection. In the Midwest, even the most hopeful Democratic leaders talk about keeping their losses to a minimum...
...given to teasing. Some people said that it was an innocently sadistic streak in him. He just had to have an outlet for fun." Behind his teasing, Roosevelt had reasons for hesitations about Frankfurter. For geographical balance, Roosevelt had wanted to name a man from the West or Midwest. Roosevelt well knew that he would stir up a storm by naming a foreign-born Jew with a well-deserved reputation as a radical advocate of liberal causes. But Frankfurter's prestige among U.S. men of law was great, and most of them could agree with the Nation...
...public purposes, the Democrats kept up a bold show of confidence. They nodded when White House Aide Larry O'Brien, a guest speaker, stressed the electoral significance of the Midwest. "What happens here," cried O'Brien, "will be the determining factor in November. The Midwest holds the key." And they acclaimed O'Brien's peroration: "I say let the blood flow. We have the cause and our cause is right." But in their private, more candid moments, they were beset by doubts. "Realistically," said one, "we Democrats are faced with the basic problem that the votes...