Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop-Kennedy movement. In New York he held a fast press conference, then dashed out to suburban New Rochelle for a big Democratic dinner and a bid for the commuters' vote. By week's end he was back in Detroit to say goodbye to the departing Midwestern politicians and attend a meeting of the United Auto Workers...
...Madison began to show up in the Negro sections of Midwestern cities about seven months ago, is spreading across the country with the enthusiastic backing of the recordmakers. Amy Records came out with a single a month ago. Columbia followed a fortnight later with The Madison Time, hired two teen-age demonstration teams, sent them out on tour to plug the new dance. Jocks who play the records on the air find themselves deluged with teenage mail. As far west as San Francisco, reported KEWB Program Director Bill Enis last week, the Madison is "picking up like gangbusters...
...drafted much of the New Deal legislation during the '305. Federal Power Commissioner Jerome K. Kuykendall testified at the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee hearing that a gas-company representative (later identified as Tommy the Cork) had tried to influence him in a case involving the Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of the giant Tennessee Gas Transmission...
Last fall, Midwestern was trying to get FPC approval to build a 504-mile pipeline from the Canadian border to Marshfield, Wis., also wanted the FPC to permit a 7% return on its investment...
Higher Rates. After the FPC examining staff had recommended a 6¼% return, Corcoran phoned Kuykendall, although the Cork was not listed as the Midwestern attorney for the case, and pleaded for the higher rate. The committee wondered: Why didn't Kuykendall hang up on him? Answered Kuykendall, a Republican appointed by Ike: "By the time I knew what he was talking about, he had said it. I didn't talk to him. He talked to me. How could I prevent...