Word: lowan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called out militiamen to help patrol highways in the western part of his State. Veterans of last spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese factories and creameries closed voluntarily throughout the state. Near Marshfield a farmer trying to sell a load of wood was brutally clubbed. A picketer near Madison...
Again the slangy lowan, procurator of food prices under the Industrial Recovery Act, lashed out, this time in his Hearst Universal Service colyum: "If any group tries to chisel, we have the power and intention to come down on them hard...
Iowa, hot bed of revolt, is the most heavily farm-mortgaged State in the Union. The total debt on its land for 1930 was $1,098,000,000 or nearly one-third of its farm value. Every lowan carries an average farm mortgage of $445 compared with a per capita burden of the same sort of only $75 for the rest of the country...
...Author. Twelve novels Author Stong threw into the incinerator, or, as his wife says, laid away in lavender. State Fair, the 13th, is his first to be published, is the Literary Guild selection for May. Belonging to the fourth generation of lowans on both sides of the family, Author Stong was noted for hay-pitching and hog-calling in his youth, became a journalist later on. He foundered with the New York World when it went down, landed in an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam). The unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than...
...Conference removed the suspension it had laid on Iowa for subsidizing athletes out of a trust fund, and other evils (TIME, June 3). The committee did not remove the individual suspensions of eleven star Iowa athletes who had been named as receiving benefits of the fund. Said the Daily lowan: "Iowa City received the tidings without enthusiasm and with a touch of skepticism...