Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Oneida, this Midwestern community has changed, for recently a capitalistic form of management was inaugurated, and wise are its directors, among them a learned M. D. whose studies took him to the best European clinics, and whose library would do justice to a more widely famed specialist...
...midwestern orchestras, none has risen so rapidly or so recently as the Indianapolis Symphony. Until 1930 Indianapolis had no resident orchestra, had to depend on occasional visits from the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit bands. That year an old violin teacher named Ferdinand Schaefer brought together 60 unemployed musicians to form the co-operative Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Before an average house of 400 they played five times, earned less than $5 apiece for each concert. At the end of the season the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League formed the Indianapolis State Symphony Society as sponsors...
...spectacle which has lately drawn midwestern crowds is the roller-skating derby, a cross between a dance marathon and a six-day bike race. The troupe travels from city to city, then skates in an arena a distance equal to the intercity journey. The skaters compete in mixed pairs, get cups for speed and endurance. Last week one such roller-skating troupe set off from St. Louis in a chartered bus to put on their show in Cincinnati...
Allen was a young rebel. He wanted to shatter conservative midwestern Jordanstown to bits, fit the pieces to a humaner pattern. So did his pal Dave. When Allen scraped together enough money to buy the local paper he proceeded to set the town on its ear. Subscriptions fell off but needy friends rallied to Allen's cause. Jordanstown's bosses dropped Allen a hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort...
...monopolistic nature of chain broadcasting, Federal control of licensing and the scarcity of radio stations not tied up with N. B. C. or C. B. S., successful emergence of a rival network with coast-to-coast outlets depended largely upon co-operation of three potent Eastern and Midwestern independents-WOR, Newark; WLW, Cincinnati; WGN, Chicago-and upon securing Pacific Coast facilities...