Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Record for the most courageous, most politically inept 1940 campaign statement thus far went last week to Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. In Des Moines, Iowa, corn kernel of the country, Mr. Taft bluntly announced his wholehearted opposition to the New Deal's corn-loan policy-on the very day the Agriculture Department announced a 57?-per-bushel corn loan, thus pouring into the State about...
...point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's pow erful machine that had been beaten only once this season (by Cornell). Despite last week's loss (21-to-14), Ohio State finished in front in the Big Ten race (with five Conference victories, one defeat), nosed out Iowa's Iron Men who, unable to do more than tie Northwestern last week (7-to-7), wound up in second place with four victories, one defeat, one tie. Michigan and Northwestern, pre-season favorites, tied for fourth place with two losses each...
...Iowa City (pop. 16,000), where she rooms with a private family, Miss Margaret Campbell got up at 5:45 (it was still dark) one morning last week When she was dressed, in a neat blue silk blouse and a blue wool skirt, she went outdoors to start her 1933 Ford coupe and her day. Miss Campbell, 26, teaches school in a typical one-room country schoolhouse. In such schools, 2,500,000 U. S. children get their education...
Miss Campbell, who has been at this school seven years, knows her children and their families well. She stops to chat at their houses, is often invited to their parties or to stay overnight. Brought up in Iowa City, where she graduated from high school, she studied at Cedar Falls State Teachers College (Iowa) for a year, then began to teach. She does not smoke or drink. Weekends she has dates with a young Iowa City storekeeper. Because she likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession...
Miss Campbell thinks that she has been in this school too long, would like to go on to a bigger one. Next year she plans to take Saturday courses at the University of Iowa. Her teaching salary now is $72.50 a month (she began at $40). Her restaurant job helps tide her over the summer vacation (when she gets no salary) and pay for such extras as the dentist. She is proud of her improvements to the school. When she arrived, it had a big black stove in the centre. She got rid of that, made the room more habitable...