Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Thomas Beer, born in 1889 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and graduated from Yale College and Colum bia Law School, has been by turns lawyer's clerk, field-artilleryman, magazine contributor. Among his novels: The Fair Rewards, Stephen Crane...
...General Pershing, quietly, politely, seeing to the Appropriation Bills. Back of Warren sat Borah, silent mostly, but now and then rising to express in even tones few well-directed arguments. Further to the side, but coming forward when he spoke, was Brookhart, the singularly soft-voiced insurgent from Iowa, striving in unequal battle with the Heflins and the Caraways, badgering the so-called farm bloc for its unsuccess...
...evening's session began with Public Hall jammed to capacity. Wild applause and cheering greeted every speaker and the roll, call of states, on the last ballot especially, was accomplished only with difficulty. Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa, reputed this afternoon to have the backing of President Coolidge, was well supported on the first ballot, which was divided between a great number of candidates...
Charles E. Perkins '04, of Burlington, Iowa, banker and railway executive, chairman of the First Iowa Trust & Savings Bank...
...metre dash: Wilson of the University of Iowa, 21 1/10 sec., at Iowa City...