Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that Collector Van Vechten decided that Iowa's folk songs were the song of Iowa's birds, the rustling of her corn...
...case anyone ever questioned the American Medical Association's power to quell a quack completely, the Association's Journal last week detailed its handling of Norman Baker. He flourished at Muscatine, Iowa, in a region of many unorthodox Corn Belt medical ideas.* Originally the man was a die-&-tool maker, then a builder of calliopes. Somehow he got into merchandising, sold radios, storage batteries, flour, coffee, canned fruits, silverware, brooms, alarm clocks, overcoats, mattresses, motor car tires, typewriters, paints...
...that a great popular gust of feeling will carry Murray forward. It is a bit difficult to consider Alfalfa Bill seriously as a human being, and much more so to attempt evaluating his chances for the presidency. Figures such as Murray are by no means unique phenomena in the corn and cotton belt. Mounte banks and demagogues have attracted large followings before. Stockless Jerry Simpson talked to thousands in his day. Murray stands for a powerful element but his strength is likewise his weakness. He represents class and sectional interests that the Democratic Party must attempt to reconcile rather than...
...Aroostook potatoes all the way from Maine to Washington. In such a fashion, the potato growen set the name of their product before the public. The actual facts of the matter were that the potatoes were loaded of from a train on the outskirts of Washington. Makers of corn syrup sent around to newspaper household departments, recipes for cooking dishes they required corn syrup...
...student is much more innocent of knowledge than the Northerner of corresponding position," but believes in his "unspoiled and eager teachableness." An eloquent testimonial of the kind of education which Piedmont gives is provided in Professor Phillips' account of weekends in his mountain cabin where students help him bake corn pone and listen to passages from Walt Whitman...