Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country lawyer from Iowa, directing the operations of a 17,000-man infantry division was big and exciting. It gave direct, driving Leo Hoegh a broader horizon, a new sense of confidence in his own administrative ability, an urge to get things done fast. But back in Iowa, these new-found qualities were not necessarily pure assets. Says Virgil Meyer, Hoegh's law partner: "It took Leo about five years to settle down. He was all Army. He wanted to talk right at the point, and you can't always do that in the law. The only thing...
...Goes the Farmer. Leo Hoegh's political problems are all bound up in the character of his state. Iowa is farming. The state's official pamphlet points out with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000). Iowa produces more hogs, poultry, eggs and timothy seed than any other state, and is stung by the fact that in 1955, largely because of drought, it lost first rank as a corn producer to neighboring Illinois...
...impressed by Ike because he asked questions," says Hoegh. "He wanted to find out what was on people's minds. And he had an open mind of his own." Hoegh was a key tactician in a group of younger Republicans who swung a majority of Iowa's delegates to Eisenhower on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention...
Next to these anthills are bigger mounds of grievance. Hoegh lost the active support of the leaders of the Iowa Manufacturers Association when he maintained his stand for the union shop. Said one I.M.A. leader: "Hoegh is too unreliable, too liberal for the I.M.A. These small factory owners in the small towns-the nurserymen and the guys with 100-worker factories-are scared to death of unions. Most of them don't even want new industry in town because it might bring in labor unions." On the other side of the coin, Hoegh's stand has not been...
Because he has opposed Secretary Benson, Hoegh has lost the active support of the pro-Benson Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, but has not won the backing of anti-Benson farm organizations. He does not object to Benson's policy (he has urged "flexible supports or some other means to get the farmer full parity in the marketplace") as much as he does to Benson's attitude, which he considers anything but flexible...