Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Round-faced, mild-mannered William Lindsay White resembles his famed father, Kansas Editor William Allen White. But of his father's homey writing on Midwestern small-town life Author White's novel shows no trace. Born 37 years ago in Emporia, Kansas (five years after his father bought the Emporia Gazette), Author White well knows the Midwest he writes about. He knows other environments as well. At 18 his father took him to the Versailles Peace Conference. Graduated from Harvard in 1924, after a year at the University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years...
Several months ago U. S. disapproval of the German-American Bund twice got the organization into the headlines characteristically. First, the peaceful village of Southbury, Conn. refused to permit establishment of a Bund camp on village property. Then a midwestern Bund convention was postponed twice because of difficulty in finding a St. Louis hall in which to hold it. Last week the Bund encountered trouble again, this time from another source. In Washington German Ambassador Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff called on Secretary Hull to announce that the German Government had again warned its 350,000 nationals residing...
...results were so deep-scarred with authenticity that swing musicians in Chicago last week had them tacked over their beds. Included: a jam session in a cheap hotel room; a street-corner scene of jobless musicians; the interior of the Orange Blossom in Kansas City, one of the midwestern barrel houses where swing flourishes rankly. In this lithograph, The Student (see cut, p. 39), Artist von Physter showed " a white dog named Gunk" at the saxophone learning how to go to town by sitting in with colored players...
Coach Mann, disgruntled over the nationwide ballyhoo given Yale's invincibility, demanded a showdown. But Yale year after year had no open date on its schedule. This rebuff, although probably unintentional, precipitated one of the most publicized coaching feuds in collegiate history. Coach Kiphuth frankly disliked his aggressive Midwestern rival, saw no use for his mechanical rabbits and other training gadgets used to develop stamina and pace. Coach Mann looked with disdain on his Eastern rival who had taught himself to teach swimmers by watching others swim...
...Pacific Coast and Far Western players are chosen to represent the West; Midwestern and Eastern players to represent the East. This year the West team was selected and coached by Lawrence (''Biff") Jones of Nebraska and Orin Hollingbcry of Washington State: the East by Andy Kerr of Colgate and Bernie Bierman of Minnesota...