Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlton graduated from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1915. From 1919 to 1922 he studied under Professor Baker in the University. While here he was an assistant in English. He acted as a member of the Workshop Company in a number of plays in Cambridge and went with its on its trip to New York City, Utica, Cleveland, and Buffalo...
Another conjectured reason for the failure of the Democratic Party is "betrayal" by William G. McAdoo. Of ten western states that at the Democratic Convention were listed as McAdoo states-California, Idaho, Iowa. Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, North Dakota-Mr. Davis carried not one; in fact he ran third in all of them except Kansas. "Is not McAdoo holding out on us," some Democrats cried at the time, "trying to prove that he is the only man who could carry the West...
...Magnus Johnson, for example; Senators Ball, Dial, Stanley, Walsh of Massachusetts, McCormick, before a forced retirement to rustication on their farms and by their native fireside. A few, such as Senator Elkins, will be back to wave a gayer adieu. Others such as Senators Walsh, of Montana, Brookhart, of Iowa, will return with a sigh of relief, knowing that they may come again. But, in the main, it will be the same identical Congress-the Congress that nobody liked...
...thing may tend to chasten insurgent Republicans, however, and that is Senator Brookhart's close hunt in Iowa...
Then the election was held. Unaccountably, most unaccountably, Daniel F. Steck, Mr. Brookhart's Democratic opponent, led in the early returns. Still more unaccountably, he led in the later returns. Mr. Brookhart went to bed admitting his defeat and remarking that the electorate of Iowa had not understood the issues...