Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shriver is the managing director of the foundation and each of the brothers and brothers-in-law is a member of the board, but the prime movers of the foundation come from the distaff side: Pat Lawford runs the West Coast operations, Eunice Shriver is in charge of the Midwest, and Jean Smith is responsible for the East Coast. Says Founder Joe Kennedy: "Everybody has a locality...
...that inescapable insigne of presidential candidates, an Indian war bonnet. Seasoned Campaigner Nixon liked what he heard and saw. The crowds were bigger and more enthusiastic than he expected, bolstering his hopes for carrying Texas in November (against any Democrat except Texas' own Lyndon Johnson) and the Midwest farm states despite farmer discontent. In Fargo, N. Dak., upward of 3,000 cheering, placard-waving Dakotans greeted him at the airport-and, incidentally, jammed up the departure of Democrat Jack Kennedy, in town to lend a hand in the special senatorial election (he was greeted by 200). Nixon found another...
...wheat acreage and a continued price support of 75% of parity. In its place they wheeled out a bill raising supports to 85% of parity and slicing acreage by 25%-a formula President Eisenhower would surely veto. They planned to use that veto to scourge Republicans throughout the Midwest. The farm Democrats got a veto, all right, but to their shock, it came in a crushing 236-170 defeat of the bill by the Democratic-controlled House. Surprise defectors were big-city Democrats, who have for years gone along with the farm bloc on high-price supports as a matter...
...Canadian deadline to build the pipeline. Corcoran said that Symonds told him to "bluntly" tell the commissioners that Symonds was not "calling wolf, wolf" when he said he would not accept less than a 7% rate of return for the pipeline to pump Canadian gas to the Midwest. FPC examiners had recommended 6¼%. Corcoran said he knew that issuing an "ultimatum" to the commissioners would not have been "the polite way to do it," so he made Symonds' point "in a softer vein." Declared Corcoran: "I was invited to be a nagger, and I was. I walked down...
...late 1930s, the Daily Worker escaped the grave only by becoming a weekly. Last week, as if giving the lie to its state of chronic poverty, the Worker announced an expansion move. Beginning this week, said Editor James E. Jackson, 45, the Worker will publish a Midwest edition...