Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tradition of Lincoln, the Republican Party Offers Herbert Hoover for President. "True to the spirit of Democracy, it turns again to a man of the people for a successor to Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, and Garfield of the towpath - to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place in the White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses of struggle and achievement. He has pursued ambition along...
...Iowa Hawkeye The Midwest News Magazine for the Deaf Council Bluffs, Iowa...
Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, from whose drawing-board in Des Moines, Iowa, comes much that is memorable in pictorial politics, considers that the cartoonist's status is that of a court jester. If "Ding" ever crusades, it is always in the lighter vein. He serves a nationwide syndicate which contains a wide variety of political sympathies. He tries to be non-partisan but is clearly classifiable as Dry and anti-Tammany...
...episode referred to by the Edmund Duffy caricature was when Nominee Curtis was heckled at Spencer, Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). The quotation as given by Duffy is inaccurate. Nominee Curtis, vexed by questions about something he had already explained, cried: "I guess you are too dumb to understand...
...Iowa--Application may be made up to and including the tenth day preceding election by writing the commissioner of registration to have name entered upon the poll list and register of precinct. Applicant may mail to commissioner his application and an affidavit in substantially the form provided in the law and giving facts about the location of his residence, naturalization, qualifications for voting, the reason for being unable to register personally, name, place of birth, color, residence in the state, in the United States, and in the election precinct, occupation, etc. Upon receipt of such an application, the commissioner...