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...politics, saw it in a dealer's window in Paris and pulled wires to have it bought for the Luxembourg. Two years later the French Government got it for 2,000 francs ($400). In 1926 it was promoted to the Louvre to take its place with Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa as one of that vast repository's prime attractions...
Reno's Parade. The farm issue?Iowa's hottest?was realistically pointed up a few hours before President Hoover's arrival in Des Moines. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, assembled 2,000 shabby men, women & children, paraded them through the city in 40 trucks bearing such signs...
...Moines awaited him with mixed emotions. Republican leaders had carefully picked a large audience from all over Iowa to hear his address. Possible hecklers had been weeded out. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, was to stage a protest parade by his discontented followers. Washington earlier in the week had heard ugly stones of "half a dozen rotten eggs" to be apportioned to each marcher but both Democrats and Republicans insisted the President would be subjected to no discourtesy. Some G. 0. P. strategists thought a Hoover speech in Republican Iowa would be wasted effort but last week the state-wide...
...President Hoover picked Des Moines and Oct. 4 to make his first campaign speech. Nominally an answer to Nominee Roosevelt's Topeka speech, the Hoover address was expected to avoid new relief prescriptions, laud the recovery program already initiated. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, planned a protest parade by 20, 000 of his followers. Republican leaders assured President Hoover the Reno demonstration would not prove hostile...
...supply controlled by him and his kind. Farmer John Chalmers of Boone County, Iowa, did not see why agricultural producers could not hold their food stuffs off the urban markets, give townsmen a taste of starvation and thus raise farm prices to a decent level. Tall, thin-lipped Milo Reno, belligerent former president of Iowa Farmers' Union, did not see why, either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five-gallon Stetson hat. made a loud, fiery speech...