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...Widow Agg's. The crowds cheered him. Newsmen were nonplussed. They had spent most of their time on the train speculating on the extent of Mr. Truman's defeat in November. All across Republican Iowa large crowds turned out to see him. The crowds were friendly, a good deal of the cheering was enthusiastic...
...Dexter, 40 miles from Des Moines, the President left the train. In a 37-auto motorcade he traveled to the Widow Lois Agg's 160-acre farm. There he delivered the week's major assault on the enemy...
Some 100,000 farmers from Iowa, Illinois and Missouri had gathered at the Widow Agg's to witness a national plowing contest. While Bess Truman, who had come up from Independence, fixed a big red carnation in her husband's buttonhole and the farmers grinned appreciatively, Harry Truman arrayed himself on a platform on a little knoll. He was delighted with the speech which Clark Clifford had written for him. Figuratively he bared his fangs. As violently as he could, he mowed 'em down...
...wife, whose Communism rose from the pits. She grew up amid strikes, riots, unemployment, sudden death. She has two children whom she mentioned in her fiery Civil War speeches urging Spain's women to put the cause above husbands and children ("it is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
...pleasant to see Sally Eilers again, even as a hungry widow; all the other players do all right, too, within the modest requirements of this kind of piece. The Cinecolor, as usual, is fine so long as the colors are low-keyed, but in open sunlight, all outdoors looks like a roast beef special...