Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Farm Bureau grew out of the agricultural recession after World War I, aligned itself with the relatively low stopgap subsidy policies of the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s, saw the ruinous results of subsidized surpluses under the Truman Administration, has since-under the influence of its efficient, prosperous Midwestern members-generally supported Republican farm policy, e.g., the Farm Bureau held fast against this year's Democratic farm bill, opposes price floors for hogs and cattle, backs flexible supports on basic commodities...
Hayride & Opry. Springfield's claim to hillbilly distinction annoys both Nashville, long the mecca of hillbilly music, and Cincinnati. Cincinnati takes pride in Midwestern Hayride (Wed. 10:30 p.m.), which consists of fancy Dans caterwauling heart-rending laments and pretty cowgirls yodeling morosely as they pluck at guitars. The show turns around Master of Ceremonies Willie Thall, a part-time hillbilly from Chicago, who talks corny on mike, but is a city slicker...
Outmaneuvered. In the hours before the vote on overriding, a secondary political reaction began to set in. Congressmen with an ear cocked to the country began to hear editorial approval of the President's veto in such Midwestern cities as Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago, and from such Southern centers as Dallas, Miami, Richmond and Memphis. Even the Des Moines Register, a supporter of the farm bill, was philosophical. Republican leaders meeting in Washington (see below) began to perk up after initial despondency. The President, they figured, had pulled the rug from under the Democrats by his principle...
...beyond this, the wild generalizations which have been bandied about for the past two or three years seem, quite rightly, to be passing out of vogue. For Kirkland is not a Midwestern House, and probably never has been. Statistics show that 17 percent of the House comes from the midwest, compared with 16 percent for the undergraduate body as a whole. Nor is Kirkland in any way the intellectual inferior of the other Houses. Quite to the contrary, 43 percent of the House made Dean's List last year, compared with about 35 percent for the rest of the College...
...paces the "deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay Adams...