Word: iowa
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...different kind of cover subject was Farmer Gustav Kuester (TIME, April 29, 1946), chosen to typify U.S. farmers. In addition to working 240 acres of Iowa farmland with his son, Dale, Kuester had been a Republican member of the Iowa legislature for twelve years...
Since the cover story ran, Kuester has served two terms as speaker of the Iowa House. He was urged to run for governor in 1948, but refused. At 64, he is still primarily a farmer, gets up at 5:30 for the milking, helps with the haying, goes to bed at 9:30. Last month he listened to the convention sessions, fell asleep a few times. "It got pretty late some of those nights," he explained...
...next test of mass inoculations with gamma globulin as a protection against the paralyzing aftereffects of poliomyelitis, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis picked the area around Sioux City (Woodbury County, Iowa, and Dakota County, Neb.). It hoped to give the needle this week to 16,500 youngsters, aged one to eleven...
...states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, which TIME lists in the hard-core group of Republican states, all went to Truman. These states have a liberal sprinkling of Democratic governors, Senators and Representatives. Is it then safe to conclude, as does TIME, that these states are part of the Republican hard core? If the convention strength of these states is shifted to the third or doubtful group, then Taft has 193 and Eisenhower 258 from this doubtful group...
...Remaining holdouts: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin...