Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Mitchell selected his toastmaster: Iowa's Senator Guy M. Gillette, whose campaign for re-election next year would be helped by all the publicity. This was most displeasing to General Chairman Kelly, who wanted to be his own toastmaster and introduce the guest of honor, Adlai Stevenson. Kelly resigned in a huff. That was a good opening for Iowa's State Chairman Jake More. Knowing exactly who the good guys and the bad guys are in the minds of many Iowa voters, More roared that "city slickers" had tried to keep lowan Gillette off the program...
...went Wilson's redhaired, Princeton-educated son, Edward Foss Wilson, 48, president since 1934. Wilson's new president and chief executive officer: trim (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) James D. Cooney, 60, a country lawyer turned corporation counsel, who joined Wilson in 1926. Educated at the University of Iowa, Cooney learned to fly in World War I, later hung out his shingle at West Union, Iowa, and rose to district judge handling "mine-run cases, from murders to accidents involving model T Fords." A Wilson vice president since 1931, Cooney says: "I have carried a good deal of responsibility...
...Jefferson, Iowa, the Cossets found a farmer foursome on the golf course ("French peasants will play golf the day that the Versailles Palace becomes a drive-in restaurant"), other farmers who fly their own Piper Cubs as much as 600 miles for a Sunday pleasure jaunt. Industrial workers were also plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen...
Cheapest Place. Hocking became a professional philosopher almost by accident. He started out to be an engineer, had already enrolled at Iowa State College as "the cheapest possible place to get an education." Then, one day in the college library, he began reading the works of William James. "Right then," says he, "I decided to aim for the place where James taught...
Jail Bait. In Fairfield, Iowa, Mrs. Effie Fisher, offered the choice of a $50 fine or 15 days in jail for shooting a squirrel in her back yard, packed her suitcase, told reporters: "I hear they have rats in the jail. I wonder if they'll let me take my rifle with...