Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief effect of the Federation to date has been to win Milwaukee's Socialists a kiss of death from their city's tiny, impotent Communist Party. Mayor Hoan, who hates revolution and dictators with all his Midwestern soul, has vehemently disclaimed the Red endorsement. But William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News was screaming last week: "A MAJORITY OF MILWAUKEE WOMEN DO NOT INTEND TO LONGER' TOLERATE A COMMUNIST-ENDORSED CITY ADMINISTRATION! . . . COMMUNISTS WHO OPENLY DEMAND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY, THE HOME AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION...
Listeners who had formed their impression of Communism from the Hearst Press must have received a distinct shock when small, sandy-haired Comrade Browder, son of a Kansas schoolteacher and longtime certified public accountant, began to speak in the tone of a mild, ingratiating Midwestern college professor. As he went on, alert listeners realized that most of his sentences could have been lifted almost verbatim from the speeches of the nation's most famed and respectable public characters. Samples...
There will be little rest for the Harvard hoopmen. For after a scant three day vacation they start on their Midwestern Christmas trip, during which they will meet Toledo University, Wittenberg, and Ohio State. Fesler's traveling squad is composed of Captain Leavitt White, Ray Lavietes, Bill Gray, Jack Dampeer, Jack Mason, George Lowman, Louis McGowan, Jack Herrick, Art Snell, and Dick Wills...
...minor changes such as are now in force for high-schools in a number of midwestern cities might be advisable, Mr. Bingham indicated...
Five days later another Midwestern team made Easterners look sick & slow. Sloshing over the same field, Indiana University's four-man team finished 1, 2, 3, and 5 in National Amateur Athletic Union's 10,000-metre run. Winner was stocky Donald L. Lash, who trotted home in the excellent time of 32:42.6. Seventh was Thomas C. Ottey, intercollegiate champion in 1933 and 1934. Since the Hoosiers did not run five men, team honors fell to Millrose Athletic Association for the fifth time in six years...