Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa City, Pollsters George Gallup and Archibald Crossley dutifully showed up for a three-day forum on poll-taking (Elmo Roper was invited too, but took sick and couldn't make it). Gallup insisted that he enjoyed living dangerously but "I'll never be happy until we've got this thing licked." Crossley concurred: "We are not here to praise the polls, but certainly not to bury them...
...this time, "Reluctant Rupert" had become a celebrity. The entire Corn Belt, which takes bulls seriously, was eager for news about him. The Foxes took Rupert to the Stange Memorial Veterinary Clinic at Iowa State College. There, Dr. Mack Emmerson transplanted the pituitary gland from the skull of another bull to Rupert's flank. After the gland had had time to work, Rupert was given the heifer test again. Still no calves...
Purduo 54, Iowa...
...Milford, Iowa...
Arizona's wizened, choleric Clarence Pudington Kelland took it from there. Said Kelland: "Scott . . . is a symbol of the ineptitude and of the betrayal of the Republican Party . . . He was only a ghost wandering around looking for a campaign to haunt." Iowa's Harrison Spangler, onetime national chairman, was next...