Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip through Iowa had Ike's staff forcibly restraining heady visions of victory. Crowds unequaled since Franklin Roosevelt's greatest days turned out at every step from Davenport to Des Moines. As the train passed down through the corn-hog country the farmers left their fields to wave and crane for a sight of the candidate. In Iowa City a crowd of 5,000 (out of a population of 27,000) got caught in a chilly rain but stuck out the discomfort until Ike had finished his talk...
Registrar Ruth Davenport said she has received many complaints about the early registration. Girls resented coming back on Friday when classes did not begin until Monday, thus "wasting" a weekend...
...Miss Davenport said the returning classes were of "average" size for the Annex...
Total 'Cliffe registration will hit 1375, according to Miss Davenport. This number includes 1020 undergraduates, 300 graduate students, and 55 women in the management program...
Alex McGarvey, a molder at Canadian General Electric's Davenport works in Toronto, did some union business on company time one day in 1949, over his foreman's objections. When the company suspended him for a week, McGarvey's fellow unionists in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (Independent) retaliated with a 2½day work stoppage. Last week an arbitration board ruled that the union had violated its contract, and must pay the company $9,208.40 for losses suffered...