Word: renshaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead printed the story of the Renshaws. Mr. and Mrs. Renshaw and their three children live on a farm in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. The farm business was bad three years ago, and the Renshaws' luck was worse. After 30 years on the farm, Mr. Renshaw was about to lose his land by foreclosure. He got cancer of the face. All his horses died. He broke his arm. His car went to pot. He had to sell his hogs for practically nothing. When the subject of patriotism came up at school...
...time the paper looked into the case of the Renshaws, they were doing well again. Wallaces' Farmer ("Henry A. Wallace, Editor, on leave of absence as Secretary of Agriculture") noted with pleasure that a Government loan plus plenty of pluck had enabled Mr. Renshaw to have his cancer treated, buy more livestock, retrieve his farm. "The Lord helps those who help themselves, and we have tried to make the best of what we have," said Mrs. Renshaw...
Last week the names of a lot of people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...
...Power, Jr., G.E.S., Louis L. Ray, Jr., 2G, Birdsey Renshaw '33, 4G, Wallaco E. Richmond, Jr., Gordon C. Ring, ARturo Rosenblueth, Otto C. Schmedeman, 2G, Joseph Shack '33, 5G, Charles H. Stauffer, 3G, Herman R. Sweet, Elijah Swift, Jr. '32, 5G, Dean S. Tarbell '34, 3G, Lincoln R. Thiesmeyer, Oswald Tippo, Max Tishler, Joseph E. Upson, 4G, Heinz Werner, Nicholas T. Werthessen '33, 4G, Edgar B. Wilson, Jr.; Alumnl Members: Roy W. Goranson, Joseph W. Greig, George Tunell '20; Associate Member; Thomas L. Perry...
Degrees of S.B. summa cum laude were awarded to Harold Eugene Dow, John Brigham Howard, Birdsey Renshaw, and Angus Ellis Taylor...