Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower, Mrs. Hiram Houghton of Red Oak, Iowa, retiring president of the 10.7 million-member General Federation of Women's Clubs, "because he stands for thrift, sagacity, individual enterprise and those things that we believe in most dearly as true Americans...
...benefit of U.S. citizens who are about to see the wife of General Eisenhower for the first time next week as a prospective First Lady, an officer at SHAPE in Paris gives an estimate: "Take an average pretty Iowa girl, transplant her to Colorado, give her parents enough money to take winter holidays, let her bump around the world with the Army, give her a modified Lillian Gish hairdo complete with bangs, and that's Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower." A friend added: "Mamie doesn't change much, but that's the reason for Mamie's charm...
Mamie's father, John Doud-a prosperous meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard twin-six. "Papa," Mamie's sister Mabel recalls, "was dreadful. We all had to go." As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston. Then & there, she met her husband...
...held that college religion courses, to be admissible, must have all the faith squeezed out of them. In consequence, many U.S. colleges load their religion curricula with "safe" and secular subjects, e.g., the Bible as literature and contemporary religious ideals. The School of Religion at the State University of Iowa has long disagreed. There, along with conventional, basic religion courses, a harmoniously working faculty of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish clergymen give honest representations of their respective religious teachings in separate courses and for college credits...
...IOWA-26. Conventions gave Ike 15, Taft 9. Two uncommitted likely to split 1 for Ike, 1 for Taft...