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...town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers' Holiday Association, under rough-spoken Milo Reno, raucously voted another farm strike May 13. That it. like last year's, would end in violence and failure was the foregone conclusion of all but the most disgruntled Iowa farmers. The conservative American Farm Bureau Federation surveyed rural sentiment in eleven States, reported that only a tiny...
...island in the river. Dolly, his eldest daughter, still a fine figure of a woman, had come home from a year in Chicago changed, embittered. But she never told anyone what had happened. Linnie, the younger, just grown up, loved her home but wanted to get away. Milo, a neighbor who raised orchids and was not otherwise exciting, kept trying to get her to marry him, but she was not enthusiastic. When rumors came that a power company wanted to plant one of their towers on the island, Papa La Fleur and Linnie, pleasantly thrilled, went hotfoot to find...
...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
Flashes in the Man-of-the-Year pan: Walter Waters, commander-in-chief of the Bonus Expeditionary Force and Milo...
...cause of every business failure. But now the rising sun of a new day is here for Agriculture and a Democratic Congress will soon enact legislation to aid the farmer. The farmer won a wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come for direct action. If Roosevelt makes a misstep we'll fight him just as hard as we fought Hoover. We'll come down...