Word: midwesternisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps no groups preached this democracy moire rabidly than the Harvard Union, college debating society which had formed twenty-five years before in imitation of the Unions at Oxford and Cambridge. For in the Union were the handful of Midwestern worshippers of Senator William Jennings Bryan who were Harvard's fiery-eyed radicals of the Gay Nineties. They convinced their Eastern colleagues to stop arguing the Free Silver question and turn their eloquence upon wealthy alumni to raise money for this new clubhouse. The debaters even offered to donate their society's name to the new structure...
...Adlai can lose," said the reporter from the Defender chain of Midwestern Negro newspapers. "Which states will Ike take? Not New York, not Illinois, not California. I've seen the crowds change from bored to enthusiastic. Since Milwaukee, they've been cheering Adlai...
...couple of hundred educators from 17 Midwestern states gathered in Kansas City, Kans. last week and listened to a call for vigorous action to keep education under local control and save it from the tentacles of big government. They liked and applauded what the speaker said-'We need not lose our freedom if we face up to our responsibilities...
...doubtless better than those of the ancients who examined chicken entrails. In Washington, D.C., retired Barber Harry Rich announced that customers of the nation's barbershops favored Stevenson over Eisenhower 58,350 to 56,213. Kansas City, Mo.'s Staley Milling Co. found that 51.6% of its Midwestern customers preferred to buy their chicken feed in sacks bearing the G.O.P. elephant. Operating on a somewhat more scientific basis, Gallup pollsters found that the Democratic Party has gained ground during October...
...similar deals, Moore has built Continental to its present size in only nine years. After graduating from high school in Jackson, Tenn., he took a job as ticket agent for a midwestern bus line, soon worked his way up to traffic manager. In 1943, after a stint with another bus line, Moore organized Lone Star Coaches, and with a borrowed $2,500,000 bought out Bowen Motor Coaches of Fort Worth, second largest independent in the South. With Lone Star serving most of the Army camps in Texas, business boomed during the war; Moore expanded into Colorado and New Mexico...