Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreement left Humphrey free and clear to set up the best-bet strategy for stopping the Democratic presidential frontrunner, Massachusetts Senator Jack Kennedy. That best bet: 1) get himself identified in the Senate and on the stump as the favorite son of Midwestern Democrats; 2) challenge and beat Jack Kennedy in the Midwest in the important Wisconsin presidential primary; 3) fight hard for the well-heeled support of the strongest anti-Kennedy forces, those still hoping against hope for Adlai Stevenson...
...What well-educated natives," exclaimed a Midwestern matron upon arrival in the old British island of Jamaica. "They all speak English." ("What robbers!" she cried after her first taxi ride.) Everyone tried to fit in, and the first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...
Emboldened by Simpson and Goldwater, Midwestern committeemen opened another file cabinet, urged the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, whom they blame for the heavy G.O.P. losses in the Midwest. At that point Alcorn got the anti-Benson motion tabled, closed the two-day session on a note of hearty approval for the Alcorn program...
Many a U.S. corporation has met with equal disaster. A Midwestern auto supplier planned a highly automated plant to make auto frames. But he did not allow sufficient lead time to get out all the bugs. The automated equipment was out of line, would not pass the parts along, and the company had to return to manual equipment to meet production schedules. A Los Angeles wholesale drug company automated the ordering and billing for its warehouse. But hardly had the warehouse started to operate when it had to shut down for nearly two months to straighten out its affairs after...
...wife with money as well as silence. Mrs. Bridge fills her days with abortive attempts to paint, to learn Spanish, to keep a scrapbook, to read. But her grasshopper attention is best held by gossipy lunches and club meetings. Novelist Connell seems to say that the very fatness of Midwestern life makes for fatheadedness in its citizens...