Word: midwesternisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Echoing the growing sentiments of many gloomy Midwestern Republicans who are muttering in their bier, Kansas' Republican Senator Andy Schoeppel -who is also chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee-suggested to his party brethren on a TV show that they should steer clear of President Eisenhower and his program if they want to be re-elected in November...
...Federal Power Commission has been considering for two years an application by the Midwestern-Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. to build a natural-gas pipeline from Tennessee to the Canadian border, has gone through 789 exhibits and 21,091 pages of testimony, at a cost of $1,500,000 to the Government and companies without reaching a decision. ¶| The Federal Communications Com mission has been listening to the arguments of seven applicants for a Toledo TV channel since 1952, with no end in sight. Says an FCC official: "We'd do just as well to draw a name from...
...current attempt of Midwestern Republican Congressmen to get Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson fired from his job, the G.O.P. is faced with 1) a scandal, 2) a dilemma, and 3) a challenge...
...dilemma: the fact that Ezra Benson, in campaigning for reforms that are the most tentative steps toward correcting the scandal (e.g., lowering minimum price supports from 75% of parity to 60%), has become such a convenient political target that Midwestern Republicans would like to dump him before election time. Two of the dump-Benson Congressmen, Nebraska's A. L. (for Arthur Lewis) Miller and Phil Weaver, had the gall to go to the President last week to attack a member of his Cabinet. They argued that Benson will lose the Republicans 20 to 25 House seats and five Midwestern...
While television is emptying movie houses across the nation (TIME, Feb. 10), business is booming for Kansas City's Elmer C. Rhoden Jr., 35, president of Commonwealth Theaters, a Midwestern chain of 102 theaters. Rhoden's box-office secret: "teenage pictures," denned by him as "rock 'n' roll, drag races, horror stories, that sort, of thing...