Word: midwesternisms
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Dewey strategists were certain that the Governor had accomplished his main objectives. He had shown himself to a lot of people. He had reminded the country that he was a self-made Midwestern boy. He had impressed on some Republican leaders the need for stampede-proof, Dewey delegates...
...Horseman. The High Command chosen by the President to lead the way into this wilderness consisted of five men, because no one man alone could be expected to bear such responsibilities. Four of them might have been picked at random from the leaders of U.S. society: a Midwestern editor, a scientist, a banker-philanthropist, an industrialist. Their salaries were $15,000 a year...
...habit-or a victory too easily won. With almost cynical resignation the coal operators had caved in to his demands. U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal's George Humphrey had led the parade. All the northern operators had followed. This week with the southern, midwestern and western operators awaiting John L.'s pleasure, union and management lawyers sweated out the final details of a contract...
Last week, standing firmly on good Midwestern earth, an American farmer viewed the world beyond the flat horizon. He had just finished three days' work, at an average of 16 hours a day, plowing and planting corn; he had even rigged up lights on his tractor so he could work nights, getting his crops in the ground. He considered the Marshall Plan they were discussing over there in Paris, and said...
...Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...