Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago. Herbert Hoover began looking around for a Midwestern manager. It was 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...
...restaurant service will be started on Monday. To be regularly entitled to use this branch of the Union, membership is necessary and may be obtained at the time of registration. Any prospective student at the University is eligible to join the Union upon the payment of $10 for annual dues. Freshman can sign up for the season at Memorial Hall today...
...next pilgrimage was to a certain spot on the streamlet for which West Branch* is named. Part of the villagers' preparations had been to restore, with a dam, what used to be the Old Swimming Hole. The Nominee eyed the work and then said to Newton C. Butler, one of the three playmates of his youth whom he had found still in West Branch: "No, this is not the place at all. I think it is up yonder by that tree...
...most significant result of the Cedar Rapids' conferences which lasted two days, was the appointment, to command the G. O. P.'s farm bureau at Chicago headquarters, of John J. Oglesby. Thereby the mention of Farmers' Friend Lowden, in the West Branch speech, was underscored. Mr. Oglesby was Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois under Governor Lowden (1917-21). They are fast friends. Mr. Oglesby was a leading Lowdenizer before the nomination. Now he agreed heartily to Hooverize. Perhaps his first commission will be to soothe Mr. Lowden's lingering bitterness and bring him, reluctant but resigned, into...
...there was a gathering last week in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Manxmen to the number of 600 attended, World Manxmen to the number of 400, and Manxmen direct from Man to the number of 26. At the head of these came one Alderman B. Crookall, member of the lower branch of the legislature...