Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest surprises of the 1948 presidential election came from Republican Iowa, the center of the farm belt. Iowa gave its ten electoral votes to Harry Truman. Five weeks before the 1952 election, this is the situation...
Background. Since Iowa became a state in 1846, it has gone Democratic in only six of 26 presidential elections. Only five of the state's 30 governors and only six of its 25 U.S. Senators have been Democrats. After swinging to Truman and electing Democrat Guy Gillette to the U.S. Senate in 1948, Iowa in 1950 gave Republicans 59.3% of the vote for governor, 55.1% for U.S. Senator, and 61.2% for Congress. Iowa's farmers, who produce more corn, hogs, poultry and eggs than the farmers of any other state, make up the most powerful voting group. Today...
...infected with contagious brucellosis (Bang's disease) turned up at the Knoxville, Ia. sales barn for regular sale. Beardsley's explanation: a hired man failed to carry out his orders to dispose of the cattle in a way that would not risk spread of the disease. Many Iowa livestock farmers, who rank the spreading of Bang's disease only slightly below murder, were not convinced by the explanation...
Nebraska Township is a small (pop. 285) farm community in the southwestern part of Iowa. In a traditionally G.O.P. county, Nebraska Township has gone Democratic in several national elections-for Al Smith in 1928, Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, Truman in 1948. Last week a Des Moines Register poll among most of Nebraska Township's 145 potential voters found 82 for Eisenhower, 33 for Stevenson. Of Eisenhower's supporters, 16 had voted for Truman in 1948; of Stevenson's, one had voted for Dewey...
...best ways to break into show business is to have a single-minded mother. Such a mother was Mrs. Marietta Hawk of Creston, Iowa. When her nine-year-old son Bob won an elocution contest, Mrs. Hawk decided that he was headed for great things. She drilled him in oratory, poetry and dramatic readings and, before he graduated from high school, entered him in 20 state and regional contests. Bob Hawk won 19 of them...