Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teacher of husbandmen, Henry Cantwell Wallace brought to his office a practical and scientific knowledge of agriculture second to none. His understanding of the devices and desires of farmers was gained at first hand?in the days when his father took to the soil in Adair County, Iowa, and later when, as a youth of 20, he was obliged to interrupt his course at the Agricultural College, at Ames, and put in five years raising corn and hogs on one of his father's tenantless farms...
...learned printing along with tilling as he grew to manhood. When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel and hogs at 2 3/4c a pound...
California he called doubtful "merely in the interest of caution." As for Iowa, he recalled an old political saying that "Iowa will go Democratic when Hell goes Methodist...
Mark Sullivan did not conclude with a flourishing "Q. E. D." Instead, he stated his biggest assumptions. These were three in number and each bore differently on the tentative result. He had assumed: 1) that New York, Iowa and California would go Republican; 2) that LaFollette would carry Minnesota; 3) that Davis would carry the five border states...
Finally, Mark Sullivan estimated that the greatest possibility of Davis and LaFollette combined depriving Coolidge of a majority lay equally in: 1) La-Follette carrying Iowa and California; or 2) Davis carrying Indiana and New Jersey...