Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, at the urgent demand of Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, finally took up the confirmation of David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. The debate was stalled when Ohio's John Bricker, who is against confirmation, proposed a delaying action: have the FBI investigate the loyalty of the commissioners, and let the Atomic Energy Committee do a second screening of AEC's 706 employees...
...this novel, 18 years of life on an Iowa farm are itemized with raw fidelity and strapping lyricism. Subtitled "a novel of faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...
...Barr Peterson, Mason City, Iowa, Harvard Glee Club (president and manager), Lowell House Committee...
...WALLACES OF IOWA (615 pp.)-Russell Lord-Houghton Mifflin...
Subluxation Adjustment. Chiropractic, founded by an Iowa storekeeper named Daniel David Palmer, has flourished for 52 years in spite of considerable hell (from the A.M.A.) & high water. It now has some 30,000 U.S. practitioners, is recognized in 44 of the 48 states. (It is illegal, but is practiced nonetheless, in New York, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Louisiana...