Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GILBERT A. JENSEN Royal, Iowa...
...Incompetent Damn Fool." The Democrats were stunned. Republicans, scarcely able to believe that even Harry Truman could say such things-and in writing-could think of nothing to do at the moment but cluck, "Shocking" . . . "Unfortunate." Iowa's Hickenlooper, when he got his breath, declaimed: "I know that the spirits of heroes from the Halls of Montezuma, from Chateau-Thierry and Tarawa . . . will be aroused...
...West Point-and took Annapolis because appointments there were easier to get from Congressmen. Radford (born in Chicago in 1896) was one of these. It was a matter of considerable surprise to Radford's father-a Canadian-born civil engineer who had moved on from Chicago to Grinnell, Iowa-when young Arthur told him, one fine day, that he was headed for the Naval Academy...
Calling All Cars. In Fort Madison, Iowa, Mrs. William James asked police to be on the lookout for her runaway sons, Frank and Jesse...
Died. Frank Phillips, 76, multimillionaire oilman; in Atlantic City. Born in a farm shack in Nebraska, Phillips went to work at 14 as a barber's apprentice, became in turn 1) owner of the biggest barbershop in Creston, Iowa; 2) a prosperous bond salesman; 3) a spectacularly successful wildcatter in Oklahoma's brawling oilfields; 4) a bank president; 5) founder-president (1917) of Phillips Petroleum Co. (current assets: $625 million...