Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cadets, after cleaning up all Eastern opposition, including Yale and Columbia, earlier this week suddenly ran into a powerhouse from Cornell College in Iowa and dropped their first meet of the season. Nevertheless they are still regarded as one of the leading teams in this part of the country...
...spite of recent Communist gains, the Socialists, led by lithe, 44-year-old Jai Prakash Narain, are still the strongest group in the Congress Party's left wing. Narain went to the Universities of California, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio State, became a convert to Communism in Chicago, where he sat up late talking to intellectuals. Returning to India, he soon abandoned Communism for Socialism because the Communists tried to impose a Moscow-dictated line on India. Narain's estimated 1,000,000 followers (out of India's 4,000,000 industrial workers) do not include Narain...
...boys & girls of the elementary and junior high schools in Davenport, Iowa, filed out of assembly, a book was handed to each of them. The book: the New Testament, plus the Book of Psalms and the Book of Proverbs. But last week, after the Gideon Bible Society had given away more than 2,500 copies, the Davenport Board of Education called a halt. Rabbi Abram Vossen Goodman of Davenport's Temple Emanuel had protested. Wrote...
...member of one of the speedup classes at Annapolis during World War I, Holloway graduated in 1918, in time to get in a few licks on a World War I destroyer. During World War II he commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct demobilization of the swollen Navy, serving as assistant chief of BuPers (Bureau of Naval Personnel). If past...
...Cooled (Sept.). In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest Medley begged police to reroute planes that flew low over his house, complained that the wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...