Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solemn occasion for the distinguished group of lowans who met on that day in 1847, under the oak trees just beyond the muddy main street of the pioneer Iowa City. Less than a year had passed since the state of Iowa had been admitted to the Union, but by order of the First General Assembly, the distinguished group of citizens were already looking over a site for the state university. "On that day," reported one of them later, "we met out-of-doors in a clearing in the hazel brush . . . Before the meeting, we got down on our knees...
...nation's public institutions, few have played a livelier role than the State University of Iowa. Sprawled over both banks of the Iowa River, it stands in the very heart of the U.S. corn belt. It deals out culture in huge, generous doses, turns out novelists, geologists and hydraulic engineers of a quality almost any campus would envy. As much as any place, S.U.I. has become a symbol of a whole region's growing up. The nickname sometimes given it: the Athens of the West...
...over one-third of East Pakistan, washing nearly 10 million people from their homes and destroying so many crops that famine seemed unavoidable and epidemics imminent. As Pakistan sent up distress signals last week, the U.S. responded as rapidly as it would to a cry for help from flooded Iowa. Within a few hours after President Eisenhower ordered U.S. Government agencies into action...
Since last spring the little Quaker farming town of West Branch, Iowa (pop. 769) had been getting ready for the 80th birthday of its famous son. The Lions International club pushed a campaign to get the town's modest homes gleaming with new paint, and front yards trimmed to the quick. Work was rushed on the new elementary school so that the famous guest could dedicate it. The night before the big day, the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators...
...mistily, Herbert Clark Hoover rode into West Branch at the head of a long motor caravan, finally wound up the ceremonial schedule amid the bunting of Hoover Park, hard by the three-room frame house where he was born Aug. 10, 1874. At speechmaking time, he was eulogized by Iowa's Governor William Beardsley and Illinois' Governor William Stratton, awarded his 80th honorary degree (Doctor of Laws from the State University of Iowa), and praised in a letter from President Eisenhower ("I look anew, and with ever-increasing admiration, upon your distinguished career"). Then Herbert Hoover stood...