Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January Midwestern farmers were hoarding corn, holding out for higher prices. Last week, the price was down to 40?, the lowest in six years, and no one wanted any of it. This year's crop is huge (estimated 2,550,000,000 bu.). Besides, there is an approximated carry-over of 550,000,000 bu. This, added to the new crop, comes to over 3,100,000,000 bu., 350,000,000 bu. over the five-year average of "normalcy...
...months ago Jim Farley completed a tour of 13 Midwestern and Western States to assay Roosevelt third-term sentiment. What he found was never published. He loyally saved it for Franklin Roosevelt's ear first. Weeks rolled by and Jim Farley was not asked for his information. Jim Farley did not like that. Then Mr. Roosevelt appointed brash, ambitious Paul McNutt, whom Jim Farley dislikes, to a post of honor and influence (Security Agency). Jim Farley boiled...
WASHINGTON--A Congressional source said tonight that midwestern liberals, under the leadership of Wisconsin's La Follette brothers, have agreed tentatively to throw their political weight behind a move to get a liberal Presidential candidate in one of the major parties...
Joyce is constantly jotting down overheard phrases, is especially interested in dialects, Midwestern American, British colonial, newspaper jargon. He speaks Italian as smoothly as English, flawless French, fluent German, knows some dozen other tongues, including outlandish Lapp. At present Joyce is not writing. His wife is trying to get him started on something, because when he is not working he is hard to live with...
...behind the Illinois Symphony's sudden artistic and box-office success is no imported, caviar-fed maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving...