Word: midwesternisms
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Having harvested an encouraging number of new Congressional seats (four), Senate places (two), and governors' chairs (two) in the heart of Republicanism during and since the 1956 elections, Midwestern Democrats were clearly feeling their oats. At a regional conference in Kansas City, Kans. last week, they got right down to dirt-farmer politics with a simple proposition: every good red-blooded Midwesterner hates Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
They must have both been freshmen, probably on a first date. The girl sounded Midwestern. She tried again. "But they're all human beings like...
...closed-door, pre-banquet luncheon before 150 G.O.P. fund raisers from nine Midwestern states, Humphrey tried to straighten some of the hair he had frizzed during the budget flap last winter, when he remarked that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Said he: "I think you might just as well admit that there is a wave of criticism, a wave of disappointment, a wave of complaint that is going all over the country-here in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, in a lot of places. It is more prevalent with just the kind of people who are right...
SEAWAY BATTLE over St. Lawrence will flare up again next month when U.S. and Canadian governments begin work on setting toll rates. Eastern businessmen, railroadmen, truckers and shippers (who originally opposed seaway, now favor it) have formed 22-state group to fight for high tolls, which would make Midwestern ports less competitive. But Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association is lobbying hard for rock-bottom tolls in first years of the seaway to attract new business...
RESTLESS combines growled and rattled across the rippling wheat fields of the Northwest. In the South, newly picked cotton sped through gins and balers. Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good...