VFW Calls for Reapportionment and End to Sifting in Iowa
The VFWs resolutions at the state convention demand abolition of the sifting committee and reapportionment to balance urban representation. The Gazette agrees but warns that resolutions alone cannot fix the system. It notes sifting committees concentrate power, hindering bills, and urges voters to elect legislators who back reapportionment and reform.
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Gazette
House
Senate
Iowa Senate
Chamber of Commerce
Where Do Votes Go Aiming for Gallup on lost ballots in Iowa canvass
A Iowa primary canvass shows 256 823 Republican senate votes and 99 172 Democratic senate votes totaling 355 995. Governor races and congressional contests trail by tens of thousands, suggesting 57 962 votes disappeared between senate and congressional levels. The author jokes about polling bias and notes a fiscal deficit lag in Washington.
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Gallup
Iowa
Brother Gallup
Radioactive Golf Balls and Atomic Tracking Ideas
A 1950 King Features column humorously discusses embedding a radioactive isotope in golf balls to track lost balls with a Geiger counter. The piece jokes about practical uses for atomic energy and ponders broader tracking applications while noting potential job impacts for cadets and other lost-item schemes. The narrator muses on future gadgets and even radiating his own son The Sprout.
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King Features Syndicate, Inc
Prisoners escape during patrol chase in Fort Madison breakout
Ten years ago Cedar Rapids police and state troopers pursued three escaped Fort Madison penitentiary inmates through traffic for ten miles. A separate note from Philadelphia reports a GOP caucus controversy involving National Committeeman Harrison Spangler. Johnny Jacobs shot a 68 to defend his Cedar Rapids golf title.
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Cedar Rapids
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Teir
Iowa
Philadelphia
Harrison Spangler
Johnny Jacobs
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Brewster pushes peace appeal in campaign clash
Marquis Childs notes a GOP shift toward calling Democrats the war party while Republicans tout peace. The clash centers on Korea and a broader debate over containment, isolationism, and defense funding as the 1952 campaign heats up.
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Sterling Statesman
Maine
Owen Brewster
Atlantic City
N. J
Democratic Party
War Party
Republican Party
G.O.P
Brewster
Republican National Committee
United Press
Guy George Gabrielson
Party of Peace
Korea
Asia
Lighting Mount Rushmore Sparks Reflections on Fear and Hope
Drew Pearson argues for renewing national purpose beyond arms, urging Americans to extend Washington Jefferson Lincoln and Roosevelt ideals globally. He warns the age of fear fueled by atomic and hydrogen threats risks paralysis and calls for new objectives and a vehicle to spread hope, not war. He cites UNNRA and JRC as lacking clear messages.
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Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
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National Park
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Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Leon Keyserling
Keyserling
Adulation of Men Weakens People's Control of Government
The author argues that hero worship of leaders like Roosevelt and the era’s great men erodes the people’s control over officials. He warns that elite adulation mirrors Nazi ideology, weakening accountability and empowering bureaucrats beyond constitutional bounds.
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George E. Sokolsky
Hitler
Roosevelt
Free
Oscar Ewing
Charles F. Brannan
Frank Buchanan
A Little System Would Help
In Washington a proposal suggests setting a quota to curb spy immigration while U S counter espionage can handle about six foreign agents daily. The speaker notes mysterious capers in classified information booths and calls for both parties to unite on the issue, aiming to restore balance for Americans.
Childless marriages and fertility questions in family health
Dr Wm Brady discusses common myths about sterility in couples, noting the majority of cases involve male sterility and that fertility can sometimes be restored by diet changes. He warns against unnecessary female testing or hormones and emphasizes microscopic male fertility tests before treatment.
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Edmond J. Farris
Author's Press, Inc
White Plains
N.Y
America
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