Word: midwesternisms
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...something here-genus unclear-that should bring happiness to its accountants and joy to the mornings of women readers everywhere. Fans of Novelist Smith may at first be put off to find that the Brooklyn of A Tree Grows in and Maggie-Now has been replaced by a Midwestern college campus, but the fact is that mythical Brooklyn has merely been transplanted-with its air of nostalgia, its saintly cast of characters and its turn-the-crank emotions comfortably intact. With the momentum of a balky suburban train, Joy tells of the domestic crises suffered by a young law student...
Bent on clearing a road for the treaty in the Senate, Kennedy tried to get two influential Midwestern Republicans, Iowa's Hickenlooper and Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, to join the U.S. delegation to Moscow. But both Dirksen and Hickenlooper decided to. stay home. The Republican Senators Kennedy tapped instead were two fellow New Englanders, Aiken and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who are high-ranking members of important Senate committees but who wield little influence among Midwestern Republicans. To make Dirksen's absence seem less conspicuous, Kennedy decided to leave behind the Democratic opposite number, Majority Leader...
...Only a few Senators-Arizona's Barry Goldwater among them-are clearly opposed to it. Some other Senators seem wary, ineluding Georgia's Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee and leader of the Southerners, and Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, who wields strong influence among Midwestern Republicans. The force of the opposition will turn upon the extent to which the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who in the past have expressed missgivings about a test ban, are genuinely willing to endorse the new pact...
Hilton's own board of directors, composed mostly of Midwestern and Western businessmen, were appalled at the thought of moving out of the U.S. But they decided to let him have some hotels abroad as playthings; they voted him a paltry $500,000 and set up the international division as a separate subsidiary so that its failure (which they expected) would not pull down the whole company. Working with profits from the Caribe, Hilton in the next ten years built eight more international hotels from Mexico City to Berlin. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Hilton added the ten Statler Hotels...
...Faculty salary scales, Harvard unfortunately has always lagged far behind many other institutions in library salaries. In 1957 starting salaries for library employees were $3,240 at the University, compared with $4,000 for a leading public library and more than $5,000 for the library of a Midwestern municipal university. And the program simply did not provide the endowment income necessary if Harvard is to raise its library salaries to a competitive figure...