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Nominee Curtis stumped on and on through the Midwest, reciting about the Tariff and Prosperity, Prosperity and the Tariff, the Tariff and Prosperity. He "received a challenge from Farmer A. J. Livingston of Spencer, Iowa, to debate issues at Des Moines, where he was scheduled to speak on Nov. 1. Farmer Livingston was the man who heckled Nominee Curtis during his speech at Spencer, Iowa, in September; the man to whom Nominee Curtis finally and dangerously retorted: "I guess you're too damn dumb to understand." Farmer Livingston requested a public apology...
...opinion Dr. Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from the Midwest, born and raised in Iowa, taken to Washington by a patron (Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury Leslie Mortier Shaw), experienced in the work of the Department by two years there (1906-08) as a junior attorney, further trained through holding offices as mayor, judge and state senator...
...Iowa Hawkeye The Midwest News Magazine for the Deaf Council Bluffs, Iowa
...natural for him to ask James William Good, a onetime (1909-1921) Congressman from Iowa. Secretary Hoover had known Congressman Good as an able legislative Committeeman. He came from Cedar Rapids, near the Hoover birthplace (West Branch). Above all, he was the man who had organized the Midwest for Calvin Coolidge in the 1924 campaign...