Word: nebraskan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again...
Between 1932 and 1935 the new capital market dried up as thoroughly as a Nebraskan wheat field during a drought- despite the steady drop in money rates. In 1935 U. S. business resumed borrowing, but refunding, not new capital, got most of the play. The year's total was $2,267,000,000. The market's biggest year since 1930 was 1936; but again most of the new money was for refunding...
...wish to respectfully point out a slight error (slight, my foot, a very grave error), in reporting the American Legion parade. On p. 15, Oct. 7 issue I quote: "The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat." Since when did a ripsnortin' Wyoming cowpuncher resemble a Nebraskan cowhand...
Southwestern Nebraska is a country full of weather. In the winter it freezes, in the summer, fries. Its gulch-pocked plateaus are the scene of alternate blizzards, droughts, tornadoes, dust storms, cloudbursts. Every once in a while a Nebraskan loses his patience, goes outside to shake his fist at God. Last week there was cause aplenty for fist-shaking...
...Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen . . ." (TIME, March 25, p. 14) The Old Man" (affectionate alias by majority of Nebraskan voters) was never Kansan was is and will continue to be potent . . . non-meddler in patronage, reluctant recommender. Still Nebraska claims wholly. Kansans please quitclaim...