Word: midwesterner
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...small village of Elmwood, Ill., there occurred last week a praiseworthy event. In a park the Girls' Glee Club sang "Illinois" and "America the Beautiful"; many "midwestern pioneers" over the age of 75 and old residents of central Illinois sat cheerfully in a grandstand. Several persons, including famed Sculptor Lorado Taft, made speeches. Then there was unveiled a bronze group statue, The Pioneers, by famed Sculptor Taft...
...fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...
...Habits. Lowell Schmaltz inhabits Zenith, the hypothetical midwestern town boomed by the famed realtor George F. Babbitt...
...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...