Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: i) Iowa's Hanford MacNider, former head of the American Legion and a combat brigadier general (and D.S.C. winner) in World War II, loyal Taftman in the primary campaign; 2) New Mexico's Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War (1929-33) and thrice-defeated candidate for U.S. Senator...
Farmers, who were frightened into Democratic columns in 1948 by the Administration's grain-storage scare, flopped resoundingly back to the G.O.P. Example: in 1948 Truman carried seven rich farm counties in southern Minnesota. This time Ike got them all. Pocahontas County, in northwestern Iowa, is a cash grain area which has been Democratic since 1928. Ike got 64%. Indiana's Hamilton County gave Dewey 63% of its vote in 1948; it gave...
...Iowa: William S. Beardsley...
...many states have laws governing the maximum length of trailers, prohibiting them from driving at night or on weekends, etc. Going from New York to Los Angeles in a 35-ft. trailer, a traveler must get individual permits from no fewer than six states, and detour around one (Iowa) entirely...
...Party needed for national victory. As for the "rebuke from voters," we suspect the "Times of hopeful fantasy. Perhaps McCarthy and Jenner did not receive the votes gloomy liberals predicted; what is of importance is that McCarthy won substantially, and Jenner defeated the most popular Democrat the State of Iowa can boast...