Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were drifting everywhere in Wrest Europe and Middle Europe; they waved to each other from the windows of passing trains." Back from Europe again, forced home either by economic pressure or half-confessed nostalgia, the Lost Generation found itself unwilling to go all the way home to its various Midwestern birthplaces, congregated in Manhattan, cynically took jobs or hopefully free-lanced for a living, began to colonize Connecticut with weekend or summer cottages. The crash of 1929 and the depression sobered them further, turned the majority into politically-minded (usually leftwing) writers, complete with careers, creeds and clientele. Right-wing...
...three sons in journalism: Burris Jr., literate Harvardman, interpreter of the late great Thomas Fferdy and now sports cartoonist for the New York Journal; Paul, adman, and Logan, newsman, on the Denver Post. Dr. Jenkins publishes The Christian (weekly), syndicates "The Drift of the Day'' in 15 Midwestern newspapers. With a journalistic sense such as has earned many a less wise and earnest churchman the reputation of being a fool, he fills his Community Church to overflowing on Sundays with sermons on subjects like cinemas, kidnapping, Will Rogers, Amos 'n' Andy. Last year...
...busily doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester, N. Y. and New York...
...same time, Southeastern and Western roads dropped the 50% Pullman surcharge and reduced first-class (chair and sleeping car) fare from 3.6? a mi. to 3?. Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
...patient with the Administration's farm policy, pleading: "Give the Congress and President an opportunity. If they fail, then you may talk about other methods." The Green Eagle began to look poorly when Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa, after a telephone call to the White House, invited ten Midwestern Governors and representative farm leaders to meet with him in Des Moines this week. Under their leadership it was expected that the farm strike could be called off with credit for all, humiliation for none...