Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herschel Loveless, 41, the sincere and ungrammatical mayor of Ottumwa (pop. 34,000), is Beardsley's opponent. Loveless' chief issue: Iowa, where liquor now can be sold legally only in state-operated package stores, should have legal liquor by the drink...
...President. As Ike Eisenhower campaigned through Iowa in mid-September, he drew the biggest political crowds the state had seen since Franklin Roosevelt's heyday. Stevenson plans one speech in the state-at Fort Dodge...
Last weeK Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Sparkman campaigned through Iowa, talking mostly about prosperity. While Iowa's prosperity will help the Democratic cause with the purse-minded farmers, its effect is at least partially offset by some blunt economic facts: the farmers' taxes and living costs have been going up, while the trend of prices for their farm products has been down. Farm policy -Republican v. Democrat promises to farmers-has not developed as a burning 1952 issue in Iowa. Other issues, e.g., Government corruption and the Korean war, are hotter...
...Republican Party is the healthier in Iowa. Bob Taft's supporters, bitter and unwilling to work at first, have now turned to. The Democratic organization is weak. Senator Gillette, who helped pull Truman through in 1948 (Gillette's margin: 162,448; Truman's: 28,362), has not been working for the national ticket...
There are many varieties of polls in Iowa. Most of them put Ike in the lead, but show a high percentage of undecided voters. One of the most interesting is the Hawkeye Feed & Distributing Company's feedbag poll. Dealers are selling livestock feed in sacks labeled for the candidates, letting farmers choose. Results so far: Ike 53%, Stevenson...