Word: dickinson
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...record of Representative Lester Jesse ("Dick") Dickinson of the Tenth Iowa district is as follows...
Iowa's Dickinson...
Enlightened by your pithy reports on other members of Congress, the undersigned subscribers request that you print one on Congressman Lester J. Dickinson of Iowa, now a candidate for the U. S. Senate...
Career: His father Levi, descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, Massachusetts settler of 1630, migrated to Iowa after the Civil War, bought land at $1 per acre, sold it for $6, became a well-to-do husbandman. His son did farm chores, attended common school, grew tall and solid. Ambitious, he helped pay his way through Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) which graduated him in 1898. He studied law at Iowa State University, hung out his shingle at the age of 26 in the town of Algona. Two years later he married Miss Myrtle Call who bore him a son, a daughter...
...bridge occasionally. He drives a Peerless and a Dodge, fiddles with his radio for distant stations, enjoys cinema. He lives in an apartment at No. 2800 Ontario Road in Washington, entertains the required amount for a Congressman, no more. His married son is his House secretary. His hobby: Dickinson genealogy...