Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MUTUAL FUND SHARES will be sold by agents of a major life-insurance company for the first time. In Eastern, Midwestern and Southern U.S., salesmen of Ohio's Nationwide insurance companies will offer, in addition to their fixed-income policies, stock in Nation-wide's Mutual Income Foundation, an open-end investment trust, whose payments fluctuate along with cost of living...
Praise & Blame. Some Ikemen were heartened at week's end by the show of fight in his telephoned address to a seven-state gathering of Midwestern Republican leaders in Cincinnati. For the first time he blamed Democratic control of Congress, for lagging performance on such measures as federal school construction and civil rights. Republicans must win control of Congress, said he, "for it is clear that political responsibility can be definitely fixed only when one party controls both the legislative and executive branches of our Government...
...Republicanism will be in for a critical test. It will be attacked bitterly by the unmodern Republicans and attacked happily by the Democrats*, whose own deep party split is minimized by the fact that they do not have a President in the White House. When Republican leaders from eight Midwestern states met in Omaha last week to talk strategy for the 1958 elections, President Eisenhower told them that the party is only as strong as its local leadership. To link that oddly assorted local leadership into national control of Congress in 1958 will be a formidable task...
They contended that the subjects discussed at NSA Congresses were of little interest to Harvard since "we operate in a more mature atmosphere" than is found in most midwestern state universities...
...organization and demonstrating his vote-pulling possibilities in 1957, the governor had shown that he is a safe bet to win a sixth term in 1958 and to get national attention in 1960. Some Williams fans even had their 1960 Democratic slate all ready to go: liberal Midwestern Governor G. Mennen Williams for President, and Eastern (Massachusetts), more conservative U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy for Vice President...