Word: leos
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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...
...states that will elect governors during the national elections next month, a myriad of little grouches and grievances and impressions form an important part of the political picture. This is particularly true when an incumbent governor such as Leo Hoegh is seeking reelection. National, state and local issues intertwine and conflict and complicate one another (last week staunch Eisenhower Republican Hoegh. convinced that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is a local political liability, kept far away when Benson visited Iowa). At times, issues that logically should help the candidate are fatal. In some cases a whole collection of political...
...case of Iowa's Leo Hoegh, the combination of national and local factors is as complex and complete as if some diabolical political chemist had poured together strains of virus out of every test tube in the laboratory. An honest, able governor, he has improved roads, schools and state institutions, has worked tirelessly and successfully to increase his state's industrial potential and to ease its agricultural woe. But he is in trouble...
...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...
...Swing to Ike. By 1951 unorthodox Leo Heogh was pushing for Eisenhower for President in a state where the Republican leaders were strong for Ohio's Senator Robert Taft. He had seen General Eisenhower in Europe during the war. "I was 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...