Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since 1925, the convention roared approval of a paragraph supporting academic freedom in Baptist schools, approved another phrase speaking of the church as embracing "all of the redeemed of all ages," which conservatives considered too ecumenical in nature. They shunned a resolution to censure the Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where Elliott had taught. The consensus was that the split was painful, and perhaps profoundly damaging. Said the Rev. Jess Moody of West Palm Beach. Fla., a popular orator of TV fame: "The biggest issue is not all this ecclesiastical falderal. History may record that America died...
...political suicide for Rocky to remarry. "No one is pleased about the impending marriage," he said. "It's got everyone shook up." Mrs. Mary Jackson, Republican National Committeewoman for Rhode Island, a heavily Catholic state, said: "Remarriage would put him in a very bad position here." A Midwestern Republican Governor saw a historical parallel of sorts: "Everybody thought there was only one Prince of Wales who would give up a kingdom for the woman he loved. But maybe we've got another right here...
...earth would want to pirate an empty boxcar? To hear the Interstate Commerce Commission tell it, many U.S. railroads would-and do. The ICC, at the urging of Midwestern roads, is knuckle-rapping some lines for holding onto boxcars from other lines for their own use. It has filed twelve suits against railroads and has five more upcoming, has already fined the Denver & Rio Grande for 14 violations. "Everybody's crying for boxcars," says Homer Wilson, superintendent of transportation for the Illinois Central...
Today it is richer and fatter than ever. The speakers program that was almost nonexistent five years ago now brings Congressmen so frequently that one Midwestern representative recently stormed into the Republican National Committee in Washington to charge that only ten YR's came out to hear him at Harvard. HYRC leaders explained there had been a club event the night before the Congressman's visit and another coming up two nights later; they were more surprised by the charges than embarbarrassed...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was running for President. His state's legislative session was over, a successful speaking trip to the Midwestern hustings had ended, and now Rocky stormed that bastion of political professionalism-Washington, D.C. There, he wowed his fellow Republicans...