Word: midwesternisms
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...February 1933, Harold Le Claire Ickes stopped off in Washington to take in the sights and to see if, by chance, anybody in the New Deal wanted to pay off a political debt. During the campaign, Ickes had worked hard to organize Midwestern progressive Republicans for Franklin Roosevelt. But in the fever of preinauguration, nobody in the capital seemed to care-until Ickes bumped into an old friend who had connections. Next day Harold Ickes got a summons from the President-elect. "Mr. Ickes," said Franklin Roosevelt, "you and I have been speaking the same language for the past...
...wedding reception going full tilt, and the expensive pop of champagne corks in his ears, Jefferson Selleck slinks off behind the potted palms to a corner sofa and collapses. Later that day, the family doctor gives his illness a medical name-"coronary occlusion." But Jeff Selleck, a successful Midwestern businessman, has more than heart trouble, he has a troubled heart. Slowed to an invalid's pace, Jeff begins to ask himself some embarrassing questions: "What does it all mean? Who am I? ... Why am I here, and where am I going...
...lives in a tony suburb of Gateway, a bustling Midwestern city. He is president of a thriving little company called Yaw-Et-Ag (Gateway spelled backwards), which manufactures musical auto horns. In a good year, he makes $20,000 before taxes, but nearly always ends up in the red. After all, one has to keep up with the next-door Ecleses. Jeff never cracks book; culture is his wife's department. He gets his fun shooting deer with a few old cronies from the Chowder & Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools...
...supporters of both Senator Taft and General Eisenhower regarded a resolution adopted yesterday by party chairmen of eighteen Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states as a boost for their respective candidates. The resolution...favored "a candidate whose hands are not tied and who has no strings attached, who will wage war without wavering against the gigantic pyramid of unholy power which has been erected on the banks of the Potomac." --from The New York Times January...
Kenneth Spicer Wherry liked to call himself a "political fundamentalist." He could reduce the shadings of any political controversy into a black & white conflict between free enterprise and socialism, or economy and waste. With stubborn affability, he spent nine years in the Senate defending his own simplified brand of Midwestern Republicanism against Democrats and internationalist Republicans...