Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned a lot about Destiny. Sinclair is not yet 52 years old. He was born in Wheeling, W. Va. It is less than 25 years since he was first heard of in Wall Street and on Long Island as a wealthy young parvenu from the midwestern oilfields. It is not 30 years since he was the son of a village druggist in Kansas, a son who, when his father died, lacked the patience to keep the little business going. One day he came in from rabbit-hunting with a wound in his foot. He had shot himself. An insurance company...
...effect "equitable" assignments of waves and wattages among the broadcasting stations, on a basis of population in five zones of the U. S. The effect may be to cut the franchises of the rich, long-established stations in the New York and Chicago zones to benefit Southern and lower-Midwestern stations. But the bill's flexible language seemed to permit "borrowing" of unused waves and wattages among the zones...
...first issue of the Quarterly contains articles by Professor Morison, Professor W. O. Clough of the University of Wyoming, Judge F. W. Howay, of British Vancouver, Lawrence Martin, midwestern journalist, and Professor S. K. Hornbeck. There are several book reviews in the issue...
...When 12 midwestern Republicans joined with Democrats to pass, 54 to 34, Senator McMaster's resolution, it seemed that the administration's tax program, already disjointed by the House and delayed by the Senate, would be disjointed further, longer delayed...
...Lowden fully recognized the Thompson power. Last fortnight, he was reported to have approached the mighty Mayor through their mutual half-friend, Governor Len Small. These three had no trouble agreeing that the G. O. P. must nominate a Midwestern man in 1928, but on Mr. Lowden's candidacy Mayor Thompson turned down two large, eloquent thumbs. A day or two later, in Washington, Mayor Thompson said: "What sort of a guy is Senator Curtis?* I want to get a line on him. He looks pretty good...