Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drank a cup of strong tea, the rabbi explained that the association of tradition and scholarly pursuits has been an integral part of his life since his Midwestern boyhood. There his father, an East European immigrant, educated himself each night with Bancroft's History of the World while fostering in the boy a "love of learning" of the past and of tradition. The rabbi suggested that his early congregation was an expression of that love but he found that, during the McCarthy era, he would have more freedom working with college students. Consequently he served as rabbi of two college...
...Arizona, New Mexico, Indiana, South Dakota and Nebraska, in all of which he has strong but by no means unchallengeable strength, he would still be 117 electoral votes short of winning. He would be forced to make up some of that deficit in the electoral-vote-rich Northern and Midwestern industrial states, where his appeal seems weakest...
White liberals appeared to be more put off by Carter's remarks than the blacks. Says one Midwestern liberal leader: "The question is whether or not 'ethnic purity' is a code word, and if so, is it calculated to lose 5% of the black vote and pick up 12% of Wallace's support? Or was it just a blunder...
...steady drizzle into position at the big Potomac switching yard south of Washington. "Just another working day," said Conductor Carroll Dikeman as he headed home. Well, not quite. Train B-6-along with nearly half of the other trains and 17,000 miles of track in 16 Northeastern and Midwestern states-had just become the property of the Consolidated Rail Corp., a Government-sponsored private company. ConRail's birth marks the largest corporate reorganization ever...
...America First Committee, Father Coughlin and the Social Justice movement, the Christian Mobilizers, in short, those who believed it possible to do business with Hitler. This is not to ignore the isolationism of men like Senator Gerald P. Nye, who held a faith in non-interventionism rooted in the Midwestern Progressive tradition--but while Nye hitched his star to that of the America First movement and became one of the committee's leading attractions, the alliance was one of convenience, as the America First rank and file represented a political perspective profoundly different from that of Senator...