Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arise from somebody's trouble. This issue arises out of financial misfortune in farming communities. It centres for the present in Iowa: the price of corn, bank failures, etc.?the entire round of agricultural depression. The leaders of the issue-makers are Senator Capper of Kansas and Representative Dickinson of Iowa, both Republicans, champions in the two Houses of Congress of a rapidly reviving farm bloc...
...Iowa a farm meeting called by bankers passed resolutions calling for disposal of surplus crops through a government organization. All thirteen Iowa Representatives in Congress were-present at the meeting. Representative Dickinson announced the preparation of a bill creating a Farm Commission to aid private organizations to dispose of surpluses of various crops, lending them Government money. Senator Capper worked on a bill for an export "corporation also to be aided by Government funds...
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Modern intelligence, a stupendous force which might change everything to the world's heart's desire, has failed to do so, charges Dickinson S. Miller in this week's New Republic, not because it lacks power, but because it is too young and afraid of itself. Well-equipped with all the raw material furnished by the scientific method, intelligence is nevertheless too cautions about thinking things to an end he says; hence there are wars, slums, crimes, stupid politics and still more stupid schemes of education...
...John M. T. Finney, of Johns Hopkins University, Vice Chairman; Judge John H. Dewitt, of Nashville; Edward Dickinson Duffield, President of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark; President Cheesman A. Merrick, Girard College, Philadelphia; Judge Nelson H. Loomis, general counsel of the Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha; Judge Nathan G. Moore, Oak Park, 111.; Robert E. Speer,* Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, Manhattan...