Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the rolling plains of Iowa last week in a Chevrolet station wagon cruised a trim, taut, fast-moving man with a bristling crew cut and a businesslike air. His days were an 18-hour succession of Republican breakfasts, Kiwanis Club luncheons, women's teas, greetings on Main Street, conversations in corn fields and gasoline-station stops. The gas stations were important. There he would shake hands with the man at the pump, greet the mechanic, stride into the diner for a word with the fry cook and a cup of coffee with the customers. The Iowa traveler...
...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 anthills pile together to form a mountain of opposition...
...mander of the American Legion post, became chairman of the Chariton Development Co. to woo new industry, president of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club, a leader in the National Guard. In 1948 he stumped for liberal Harold Stassen, in 1950 ran in the primary against entrenched Republican Congressman Karl LeCompte. "For the Republican Party," said eager Campaigner Hoegh, "do-nothing and me-too are out. The party should draw its inspiration from the people and free itself from the shackles of the Old Guard." Old Guardsman Le Compte beat...
...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...
...deal, avoiding the $2,000 limit on the prices for a state auto, to get the governor an air-conditioned Oldsmobile sedan. Another outcry came when he flew to a former lowans' picnic in Long Beach, Calif, in a National Guard plane, and went from there to the Republican National Convention at his own expense. The Des Moines Ministerial Association was apoplectic when he accepted as a gift to the state the grand champion calf of the 1955 State Fair, only to discover later that the bearer of the gift was Omaha's Storz Brewing...