Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans' Midwestern Finance Chairman] Ken Dahlberg...
...press conferences in his last year, Nixon said: "I have a quality which I guess I must have inherited from my Midwestern mother and father, which is that the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." Many who knew him well doubted that claim. They saw, or thought they saw, rage and consuming bitterness beneath the façade. But he did display amazing endurance and (with a few lapses) a remarkable public calm during more than a year of savage at tacks and adversity...
...often invoked his Midwestern heritage. His mother, Hannah Milhous, was an Indiana Quaker whose family, celebrated in Jessamyn West's novel The Friendly Persuasion, moved to Whittier, Calif., at the turn of the century. His father, Francis Anthony Nixon, was an Ohio Methodist with only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon...
First came the torrential rains of spring, sweeping away thousands of planted acres in the Midwestern grain belt, gouging great creases in the fields and delaying planting of new crops. Then the rain stopped, and for well over a month now, the sun has risen like a bright brass gong in a white sky. While days, then weeks passed without rain, the sun parched the soil and left corn stalks brittle, stunted and dead. From the Dakotas southward to Texas, from Kansas east to parts of Ohio, the most baleful weather in a generation is raising the specter of economic...
...finally to top out; indeed, banks' prime rate, or basic charge on business loans, began inching down. Manhattan's First National City Bank trimmed its prune a quarter of a point, to 11¼%, as did Southwest Bank of St. Louis and First National of Miami. Two Midwestern banks with the nation's highest prime rates also made reductions: Chicago's First National, from 11¾% to 11.6%, and Lansing's Michigan National, from 11¾% to 11¼%. The lowest prune rate was posted by Boston's small Harbor National Bank: 11%, down...