Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Observe, Persist, Learn." The personality was nourished by a quiet, perceptive, Quaker-bred mother, an outgiving father, Lewis Green Stevenson (business manager for 45 Midwestern farms, Illinois Secretary of State, 1914-1916), and a wealth of family pride. Great-grandfather Jesse Fell was a close friend of Lincoln's, suggested the Lincoln- Douglas debates, worked for Lincoln's presidential campaign. Adlai's Democratic paternal grandfather and namesake was Vice President in Grover Cleveland's second Administration, and the old campaign posters still decorate Adlai's den in Libertyville. Adlai's birth naturally prompted...
Soil-bank payments will begin in September or October, and they will pour into the hardest-hit areas in the pivotal Midwestern states; e.g., Iowa stands to get about $39 million, Nebraska some $32 million. Certainly the Republicans would have been in trouble without the soil bank, but with it these normally Republican states seem likely to stay that way. Most farmers like the idea of the soil bank; they clearly identify it with the Eisenhower Administration. They believe it is good for the land, good for income, and the first hopeful attack they have yet seen on the haunting...
Catholicism is no longer a national political liability (see box)-many Southern and Midwestern Democratic politicians gulp hard when his name is mentioned. Geography weakens his position as a possible running mate for New York's Harriman. but he stands high on the Stevenson list...
...leader of a new band of Argonauts who have given the shipping world a new term: "the Greeks," meaning the independent shipowners of whatever nationality who have sailed on the crest of the postwar shipping boom. Customarily included among "the Greeks" is Midwestern-born Daniel K. Ludwig, 58, whose fleet (estimated at 1.5 million tons) is second only to Niarchos'. Behind Ludwig presses Niarchos' brother-in-law, Aristotle Socrates Onassis. 49, a flamboyant Smyrnan who, with Niarchos. bought the Monte Carlo Casino in 1954, owns some 1.3 million tons of shipping, the world's third biggest independent...
Take away unhappy childhoods and a seething contempt for the old hometown and many a U.S. writer might never have set pen to paper. Still, rebels like Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser were moved at least as much by compassion for their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa...