Word: midwesternisms
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...Hampshire. At Chicago, Dr. Work's name appears in handsome letters in the Hoover offices at 333 North Michigan Avenue (20th and 21st floors). But the pink-white-and-gray man in the office is only formally subordinate to Dr. Work. After seeing how ably the Midwestern cornerstone of his vote was being swung into place and how carefully the cement was being mixed, Nominee Hoover gave pink-white-and-gray James William Good implicit freedom and full control at Chicago. When Dr. Work goes to New York he feels free to issue suggestions and vetoes to Senator Moses...
...Perhaps," said a Midwestern Hooverizer, "Perhaps it is just as well President Coolidge chose to go trout fishing in Wisconsin last summer." President Coolidge's presence in the northwestern corner of the State has made a lot of converts to Republican regularity in Wisconsin; also in neighboring Minnesota...
...World's interpretation. Mr. Peek, now a Smith man, said nothing. Chairman Raskob announced the formation of a committee to supervise a strenuous fight for Corn Belt votes. It was also announced that the Democrats were in a better position to win one or more of the 13 Midwestern farm states. The Republicans announced that they were not worried...
...front cover) One of the two oldtime political parties, between which there is not, yet is, a great difference, was about to nominate a man for the U. S. Presidency. The vortex of the event was in the Midwestern flatlands. The result would work no immediately perceptible change in the day-to-day life of millions and millions of citizens. The result would be a headline in the newspapers, a shout across-lots, a word by radio, to the vague majority...
Then Joel 0. Cheek did a very bold thing for a merchant. He started a national advertising campaign before he could supply the goods he advertised. But he created an insistent demand, and by the time his salesmen got to northern, midwestern, southwestern, northwestern and Pacific Coast jobbers they met very little sales-resistance...