Word: midwesternisms
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...knows exactly why Boss Pendergast picked Truman for the Senate. One theory: the Boss was in the whimsical mood of a socialite sneaking a pet Pekingese into the Social Register. A better theory: the Boss was impressed by the Midwestern adage that every manure pile should sprout one rose-he saw in Truman a personally honest, courageous man whose respectability would disguise the odors of the Pendergast mob. Certainly Truman was no statesman in 1934. Neither had he ever been touched by scandal...
...fracas started when the Erie Railroad proudly announced that underwriters Morgan, Stanley & Co. would handle a $14,000,000 Erie bond issue. Up rose peppery, dollar-minded Cyrus Stephen Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and a Midwestern underwriter, who believes that New York financiers get far too much of the underwriting business. He demanded that ICC stop the sale, open the bidding to all comers...
...prices, big bad wolf to Congress and bull in a china shop to all & sundry, dropped out of one of the biggest of all wartime offices. For all his polite interchange of letters with his President, Henderson did not fall. He was pushed: by the farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over gas rationing almost left the East gasless...
...chairman's job would be grinding. Fortnight ago new threats against New Deal leadership again cropped up. Alabama's Governor Frank M. Dixon, champion of "white supremacy," called for a secession of Southern Democrats. In Omaha, Democratic leaders of nine Midwestern States organized a "united farm front"-without consulting top party chiefs. Onetime Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, one of the few top officials ever fired by Franklin Roosevelt, sounded off for a new "agrarian party...
...whole, the involved and extremely weighty plot moves from crisis to crisis with the urgency of a hurried psychiatrist, weaving a powerful story into the life of an apparently peaceful midwestern town. All the quirks of sociology, all the social problems imaginable in the society of the turn of the century are turned loose in "Kings...