Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never been a monastic. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was originally trained as an architect at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from 600 to 1,500, housed the overflow in a streamlined Quonset-type chapel which he helped to design. When Kent trustees began looking for a "live-wire with a soul" to head Kent last...
...said, "I'm sending the U.S. to Washington." McCormick, who has no children, was turning over the Times-Herald to his favorite niece and crown princess of Chicagoland, 28-year-old Ruth Elizabeth McCormick Miller. Bertie could hardly have found anyone more American or more Midwestern than "Bazy" Miller, who is the granddaughter of President-Maker (and U.S. Senator) Mark Hanna, the daughter of Senator Medill McCormick and Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms...
...that, except for foreign policy, the 81st Congress was proving to be one of the most unmanaged & unmanageable Congesses in recent times. No one man, no one group ran the show-neither the Fair Dealers, the Southern diehards, Taft's moderate Republicans, nor Kenneth Wherry's Midwestern tories, nor any permanent coalition of them...
...Agriculture Charles F. Brannan rode back to Washington from the tall corn country last week, basking in pleasant visions of the future. For two days an all-star cast of Democratic brass had hobnobbed in Des Moines with 3,000 farmers, labor leaders and party bosses from 16 Midwestern states, whooping up the Brannan farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful...
...tracks were cleared. Deramus Sr. worked with a stockholders' group that was dissatisfied with the management of Chicago Great Western, succeeded in making Coalman Grant Stauffer president last fall. Stauffer made young Bill Deramus his assistant in the Great Western, whose 1,500 miles of track tap six Midwestern states. Young Bill trimmed costs so well that when Stauffer died last March, he was the logical man for the presidency. Now with freight carload-ings off 5.4% from 1948 (v. nearly a 10% average drop for all roads), Bill Deramus hopes to cut costs more by dieselizing the entire...