Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group has grown from a membership of 40 to morethan 110. Originally, the Committee intended to concentrate on the South and the Far West, where selling and recruiting work is needed most. But the program has expanded in scope, so that members now represent 38 states--most of them midwestern and the group also does extensive work along the Atlantic seaboard...
...Suppose It Matters." Ike Eisenhower must win more delegates to win the nomination, and Ike knows it. On the way from Kansas City to Abilene, Ike doggedly went through the train to shake hands with his boosters and some 50 Midwestern delegates who were aboard. For the most part, these were already technically his delegates, but the openhanded, hearty, Eisenhower charm turned many into glowing enthusiasts. When...
...grey, soggy Midwestern morning last week, a blue & white Jackrabbit bus pulled up in front of the high school in Canton, S. Dak. (pop. 2,500). It was 9:30 a.m., an early hour for a political rally even in this year of virulent campaign fever, but already 500 people were squeezed into the school auditorium. The candidate they were waiting for, a tall man who showed his 62 sedentary years but had a determined look, slipped off the bus with amazing agility. In the bus he left a bulging, battered, yellow leather briefcase with a gold-lettered name almost...
...more than 1,000 miles of South Dakota's rolling plains, Dantesque bad lands and towering Black Hills. He made 24 speeches to 50,000 attentive South Dakotans; almost every hall he entered was jam-full. In a flat Ohio voice he said the kind of things most Midwestern Republicans hoped to hear. He said he was against universal military training, high taxes and expensive foreign aid; he was for farm-price supports, flood control and Douglas MacArthur. He made a big vow: "I promise you that if I am nominated and elected . . . I will reduce taxes...
...University, the self-appointed athletic coach of Columbus' asylum for the blind. Mainly the Album is a lesson in human affection, shrewd but not hard, done with a wonderful eye for idiosyncrasies carried with dignity, human follies borne with grace. That Author Thurber loves these people, their unmistakable Midwestern American grain, is clear on every page. Plain folk have never been more gracefully praised...