Word: midwesternisms
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Today it is richer and fatter than ever. The speakers program that was almost nonexistent five years ago now brings Congressmen so frequently that one Midwestern representative recently stormed into the Republican National Committee in Washington to charge that only ten YR's came out to hear him at Harvard. HYRC leaders explained there had been a club event the night before the Congressman's visit and another coming up two nights later; they were more surprised by the charges than embarbarrassed...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was running for President. His state's legislative session was over, a successful speaking trip to the Midwestern hustings had ended, and now Rocky stormed that bastion of political professionalism-Washington, D.C. There, he wowed his fellow Republicans...
...Dillinger thought of himself as a modern Jesse James, and he never tired of saying that he merely recovered from the bankers what they had stolen from the people-an assertion that a surprising number of the people believed. The members of Dillinger's and other Midwestern gangs were almost entirely native-born Americans, some of them descendants of Ozarks outlaws like the James brothers. They scorned the Jewish and Italian gangs of New York and Chicago, run by cold-eyed executives like Dutch Schultz and Al Capone, who preferred not to shoot anyone themselves...
...These Midwestern schools have announced a "pioneer program" of sharing educational wealth: they plan to allow their 43,000 graduate students to move freely from one institution to another...
...alliance of Midwestern universities dedicated to beating one another's brains out on the gridiron. Like the Ivy League, which football also launched, it may soon be known more for minds than for muscles. Last week the Big Ten schools, joined by an ex-member, the University of Chicago, agreed to link their graduate facilities in the world's biggest "academic common market...