The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929-1933

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199 i n t r o D u C t i o n 1. Des Moines Register, march 4, 1929, 1; Des Moines Tribune, march 2, 1929, 1; and Des Moines Register, march 3, 1929, 1 & l-3, and february 24, 1929, 1. 2. Herbert Hoover, American Individualism: The Challenge to Liberty (quote within the introduction by george H. nash), 13. 3. Des Moines Register, february 28, 1929, 1. 4. John m. Henry, editor, As Ding Saw Hoover, 81 and 96. 5. Des Moines Register, february 28, 1929, 2. 6. Joan liffring Zug and John Zug, Herbert Hoover & West Branch, no pages listed. 7. Des Moines Register, march 4, 1929, 2. 8. ibid., march 3, 1929, 10; Des Moines Tribune, march 4, 1929, 14; and Des Moines Register, march 4, 1929, 1; march 5, 1929, 1, and march 3, 1929, 1. 9. Des Moines Register, march 4, 1929, 1 and 2; Des Moines Tribune, march 1, 1929, 1—section 2; and Wallaces’ Farmer, march 8, 1929, 4. 10. Des Moines Tribune, march 5, 1929, 3. 11. Donald a. ritchie, Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932, 17 and 26; and Herbert Hoover presidential library, lou Henry Hoover papers, white House general files, request for assistance advice, Clothing, money: Box 50, folder: advice, Clothing, money; 1930 Haa-Hay. 12. ruth C. silva, Rum, Religion, & Votes: 1928 Re-Examined, map insert between 106 and 107; and roy V. peel and thomas C. Donnelly, The 1928 Campaign: An Analysis, 170. 13. united states Department of Commerce, fifteenth Census of the united states: 1930, 5 and 359; agriculture: vol. ii (1932), 32 and 33; Des Moines Tribune, January 28, 1928, 1; emmet l. morris, editor, Iowa Today: ‘Where the Tall Corn Grows,’ no page numbers; Herbert Hoover presidential library, Box 129, farm matters: federal farm Board Correspondence 1930, april to Correspondence 1931, may. 14. Wallaces’ Farmer, april 29, 1929, 5. Henry a. wallace’s personal weekly column was titled “odds & ends.” 15. Des Moines Register, february 21, 1929, 1. 16. 1929 County extension records, annual narrative report, vol. i, adair County, 16 (greenfield); adams County, 5; vol. xii, madison County, 35; vol. xiii, montgomery County, 7. 17. extension annual narrative reports, 1929; iowa state Department of agriculture, Iowa Year Book of Agriculture, 1929, 41; and Herbert Hoover presidential library, Box 129, farm matters: federal farm Board Correspondence 1930, april to Correspondence 1931, may. 18. iowa state Department of agriculture, Iowa Year Book of Agriculture, 1929, 353. 19. Des Moines Register, march 2, 1929, 1; Wallaces’ Farmer, april 19, 1929, 3; and Herbert Hoover presidential library, Box 125, presidential papers—subject file, expositions, N O T E S notes 200 exhibitions, expeditions, 1929–1932 to farm matters, Correspondence 1930 november, file: farm matters—Correspondence 1929, april 16–30. 20. Herbert Hoover presidential library, Box 125, presidential papers—subject file, expositions, exhibitions, expeditions, 1929–1932 to farm matters, Correspondence 1930 november, file: farm matters—Correspondence 1929, september–December. 21. ibid., Box 195, presidential papers—subject file, masonic matters: 1929–1930 to medals 1931, file: medals, 1930, January–may. 22. Wallaces’ Farmer, may 24, 1929, 3 and 15. 23. ibid., august 30, 1929, 21. 24. Better Iowa, January 30, 1929, 3. 25. ibid., march 4, 1929, 1. 26. Des Moines Tribune, march 21, 1929, 10. 27. state Historical society of iowa, iowa City, ms 63, e. g. powers, Diaries 1920–1934, folder: powers Diary, 1929 Complete. 28. Wallaces’ Farmer, January 4, 1929, 3. 29. ibid., January 18, 1929, 9; february 8, 1929, 10; emmet l. morris, editor, Iowa Today: ‘Where the Tall Corn Grows,’ no page numbers. 30. Wallaces’ Farmer, february 22, 1929, 6. 31. iowa state university archives, County extension records, 1929, annual narrative report, vol. i, adair County, 19; allamakee County, 58; vol. ix, Black Hawk County, 9; vol. ii, appanoose County, 30. 32. Better Iowa, January 28, 1929, 3. 33. Herbert Hoover presidential library, lou Henry Hoover papers, white House general files, request for assistance advice, Clothing, money, folder: 1929, saf-sev. 34. robert s. mcelvaine, editor, Down & Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man, 69. 35. Better Homes and Gardens, april 1929, 20. 36. Wallaces’ Farmer, January 25, 1929, 27; Better Iowa, november 4, 1929; and iowa state university archives, extension narrative reports, 1929, vol. i, appanoose County, 40. 37. Better Iowa, april 29, 1929, 1. 38. ibid., January 28, 1929, 1 and 2. 39. Wallaces’ Farmer, october 26, 1929, 21, and october 4, 1929, 23. 40. ibid., october 26, 1929, 16, and september 20...