Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backyard, with some advice from his father, Henry Agard Wallace. No politician then father Henry was spending his time developing his hybrid corn,* forming the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. to sell the seed, and editing Wallaces' Farmer. When the corn became a success (over 99% of Iowa corn springs from some brand of hybrid ternel), young Henry decided to revolutionize the poultry business with hybrid chickens as his father had helped revolutionize corn growing...
...Tricky U.C.L.A. invaded Big Ten country to whip corn-fed Iowa (41-25) after cries of "Espionage" and countercries of "Nonsense." The Iowa campus was in a storm over a report (pooh-poohed by U.C.L.A.) that a student and former Hawkeye center had telephoned vital Iowa football secrets to U.C.L.A.'s new and talented coach, Red Sanders. The loudest roar in the storm was the voice of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher: "A breach of canons . . . moral turpitude . . . Such a student would not be justified in receiving a degree from this university...
John W. M. Whiting, lecturer on Education. Former assistant professor of Anthropology and Research Associate, Iowa State...
About 40% of the presidents had once worked at something besides education. The University of Kansas picked a vice president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; Iowa chose a Chicago lawyer. There were a physician, a dirt farmer, two journalists, a rear admiral and a former state governor...
...course which the students have found most stimulating are those which deal with the American economy, American sociology and anthropology, literature, and music. Professor Kenneth Boulding of Iowa State College is lecturing on the sources of American economic ideologies, while William H. Nicholls of Vanderbilt University is informing economists and teachers from all over Europe about the American farm economy. Course in anthropology and sociology, given by Professor Clyde Kluckhohn and Florence Kluckhohn of Harvard, have been attended by many of the best students from Central European countries to who are anxious to know about the developments in that field...