Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hiram Cole Houghton of Red Oak, Iowa, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, stepped up last week to say something about the girls. She told a meeting in Philadelphia: "We bear a greater responsibility than ever before for the preservation of our American way of life, because, first, there are so many of us; second, we live longer than men; third, we have 92 labor-saving devices to give us more leisure time to think about the affairs, events and problems of our times. We spend about 85? out of every dollar going for consumer goods...
Died. F. W. Fitch, 81, shampoo millionaire ("Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo," "Fitch's Ideal Hair Tonic"); in Des Moines. Born into a poor Iowa family, he started work at eight as a farmhand, became a barber and concocted a tonic that temporarily removed dandruff. When he found many willing buyers, he stopped barbering, moved his equipment from his house to a plant, started on a business which cleaned up $11 million a year...
...week's end, 24 Republican Senators, headed by Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rallied to McCarthy's side with a manifesto. "There is evidence that no man can criticize our Government today and escape intemperate reprisals," the Republicans noted. "We shall rally to the defense of any persons against whom reprisals are directed . . . We shall fight to guarantee that in the difficult days ahead, no man's voice shall be silenced." There was a 25th signer: McCarthy...
Under the clean autumn sunlight, the land burgeoned with plenty. The second largest corn crop in history drowsed on the fields of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. Other crops were short of alltime records, but bountiful beyond the dreams of the farmers of other lands...
...unintimidated nine: Democrats Byrd (Va.) Douglas (ILL.), Ellender (La.), Fulbright (Ark.), Gillette (Iowa), O'Mahoney (Wyo.) and Robertson (Va.); Republicans Duff (Pa.) and Ferguson (Mich...