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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iowa. The legislature of Iowa, forgiving the presidential veto of the McNary-Haugen farm bill (TIME, March 7), formally placed at the President's disposal "all the good things that do distinctly exist in the Hawkeye State." One specific good thing was the Franklin Floete estate "The Highlands." Inducements: 35 acres, fully fenced for privacy; 1,700 feet above sea-level (cool, bracing). Location: On Lake Okoboji, northern Iowa...
Wyoming. Miss Cody Allen, granddaughter of the late Colonel ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, invited the President to Cody, Wyo., named for her grandfather. In 1850 President Zachary Taylor attended a fourth of July celebration in Washington. With the thermometer at 97°, President Taylor washed cherries down with ice water. A few days later the nation was in mourning for him. Presidents before and since Zachary Taylor have sought to escape Washington's summer heat. Last summer President Coolidge sojourned in the Adirondacks; in 1925 visited Massachusetts; in 1924 Vermont...
Upon looking over his schedule for the morning, the Vagabond finds himself invited to a number of lectures so variegated in subject matter as to promise a highly diverting and instructive day. Economics, history, science, music and architecture are all on the bill of fare,--certainly a more widespread range of material could not be found to edify the versatile interests of a true vagabond, whose mind should be many-faceted...
...correct one. The current issue shows that the Lampoon has got religion, a clean collar, a shave, shine and shampoo, and is reverting with god2ly zeal to its old state of grace. It is a good, clean book for the whole family, and you can show it to Bill Roper too, if he comes around after supper for a Ford ride. The little group of graduate Lampooners in New York, who recently apologized to the world for the Lampoon's latest lapse from virtue, can now introduce the paper without hesitation to their clients in the sensitive rural communities...
...Learned with approval that the Trades Union Congress, sitting at London last week, had overwhelmingly voted down an extremist resolution that another general strike be called in protest against the Government's now pending Anti-Strike Bill (TIME, Feb. 21, 28, April...