Word: midwesternisms
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...humbly born President of the U.S., a midwestern Missourian, was top man at Potsdam. Winston Churchill, the descendant of Marlborough, and Joseph Stalin, the Bolshevik dictator, made Harry Truman the chairman of their formal meetings. One evening he gave a state dinner for the other two, and afterwards he sat at a piano and played a minuet in G for them. One German, and one only, was in the room: Ludwig van Beethoven, who hated Prussianism and wrote the music...
...Midwestern colleges, well acquainted with Superintendent Johnson's child protege's, like wise required similar exams...
Making of a Senator. From that time on, Editor Vandenberg became a politician. He got to know Warren Harding, who was also a Midwestern newspaper editor, and helped write the foreign relations sections of Harding's campaign speeches. He enthusiastically supported Henry Cabot Lodge, and is credited with changing William Howard Taft's original enthusiasms for the League of Nations by the sheer force of a searching interview with the ex-President...
...Senate voting record on foreign policy was consistent, never tinged with Midwestern isolationism. He is committed to carrying out the Roosevelt plan for world security, and in a speech last month in Chicago he said: "We must not wait for a perfect international plan. . . . We must act, and act promptly. ... As we united in victory, we must unite in peace." His friends predict that in international dealings (i.e., bases, air routes, etc.) he will be a shrewd bargainer, with U.S. interests firmly in mind...
...this mean that Wisconsin voters had turned from the old faithful Progressive mixture-agrarian reform and a Midwestern suspicion of other nations? Progressives had explanations ready: for the first time the primary had been held in August, when farmers are busy; Progressives traditionally show poorly in primaries ; the Party's candidates were mostly unknowns; there had been no significant differences in issues (the leading Republican, Democrat and Progressive candidates all campaigned for international cooperation...