Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Service by a newspaper was best exemplified, the judges thought, by the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, which went out of its own bailiwick to expose political corruption in Sioux City & environs. Crusading Editor Verne Marshall prodded the legislature and the Woodbury County (Sioux City) grand jury into investigating connivance between law-breakers and officials (TIME, Sept. 30). Result was the conviction of the chairman of the State Liquor Commission for illegally disposing of State liquor seals, suspension of Sioux City's mayor and the resignations under fire of the Woodbury County attorney and public safety commissioner. As higher...
...disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could not compromise himself artistically for a client. He built a Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Just before the War he began putting up small banks in the Corn Belt. They remain among the finest things from his drafting board. The one at Sidney, Ohio, erected in 1917, had airconditioning...
...most effective grumbling: ''Glittering phrases about stimulating 'sound and healthy trade' do not conceal the fact that in the treaty the forest products industries and their employes have been sacrificed for promised benefits to other industries." (Makers of shingles, however, were keeping silent because red cedar shingle imports were limited to 25% of U. S. consumption compared to imports now running around...
...remember the Southern Turf very well- but the most popular drink emporium in Nashville in my days was Luigart's-across from our Vine street building, where most of us had our own cedar beer mugs kept...
...years lowans have complacently accepted Sioux City, wide-open river town as something of a black sheep on the edge of their fold. Verne Marshall, crusading editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, did not object to Sioux Citizens having their gambling and highballs, but his nostrils quivered at the smell of bargaining between lawbreakers and officials. After a legislative investigation which resulted in the conviction of State Liquor Commission Chairman Harold M. Cooper for disposing illegally of State liquor seals. Editor Marshall early this year prodded Woodbury County (Sioux City) into a grand jury investigation...