Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depots and on porches, at crossings and atop boxcars, people gathered in little clots to watch the train roll through. When it stopped in the tank towns of Nebraska and Iowa, in the farming centers of Idaho and Washington, in the mining towns in Montana, the crowds swarmed around the rear platform yelling "Hi, Harry." Harry Truman, President of the U.S. and crack politician, was on tour...
Along the Snake. As the presidential train rolled across the black-loam Iowa fields laced with corn stubble and patched with rain-fed lakes, it became clear that Harry Truman was concentrating much of his fire on the Republicans' 1950 slogan: "Liberty against socialism." Time after time he cited instances in the past when "calamity howlers" had hung a "socialist" label on programs that were now farmer gospel-rural electrification, soil conservation, public power, flood control...
Browder grew querulous under questioning. He snorted: "If I had known Communists in the State Department, I wouldn't give you their names." Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper tried him out on a series of names. Shouted Browder: "I refuse to answer. I will have no part in a fishing expedition." Connecticut's Brien McMahon tried another tack. "You don't have to answer if you feel your answer might incriminate you," he said wheedlingly, but there were some names that had been publicly mentioned. What did he know of Dorothy Kenyon, Haldore Hanson, John Carter Vincent...
When the farmers up in Aroostook County grew too many potatoes, the government stepped in and bought the extra. When the hog growers out Iowa way raised too many pigs, the government stepped in and bought up the glut. But when the Johnson Company canned an oversupply of Bestoval Cocktail Fruit Mixture last fall no one came to their aid. A serious cut in the price of cocktail fruit mixture threatened! If the University authorities hadn't acted decicevly right then, there is no telling what might have happened...
...statues, which are calculated to "strengthen the arm of liberty" are the brain children of a wealthy and civic-minded Kansas City manufacturer named Jack P. Whitaker. He was first struck with the idea when a patriotic citizen of Spirit Lake, Iowa (pop. 2,161) put up a Statue of Liberty constructed of concrete and chicken wire. It wasn't much of a job, but 3,500 people attended the dedication...