Word: midwesternisms
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...tempo is little changed. And gradually he has surrounded himself with men who share his own homely background. As Harry Hopkins' WPA is filled with social workers and reminds visitors of a settlement house, so Henry Wallace's Agriculture looks like the agricultural extension bureau of a midwestern university...
...bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan of Ohio, Al Brockway of Washington. Dependent for dues on citizens who have...
Since 1933 he has strayed off the reservation only once; as a Midwestern Isolationist, he voted against the World Court protocols...
...Announced for next week was a "Cornfield Conference" of Republicans at the farm of Homer E. Capehart, vice president of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments). Place: Washington, Ind. Theme: winning Midwestern seats in Congress (Republicans have but one out of Indiana's 14, for example). Keynoter: New York's Representative James W. Wadsworth. Expected attendance...
...Chicago Golden Glovers (who defeated the New York Golden Glovers in the annual inter-city championships two months ago) and a picked team of European amateurs. The Chicago team of eight (topnotchers in each of the eight divisions of pugilism) were the survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States who entered the first preliminaries four months before. The Europeans (four Germans, one Italian, Pole, Irishman and Finn) were the cream of the continent. They had two Olympic champions: Heavyweight Herbert Runge of Germany and Bantamweight Ulderico Sergo of Italy...