Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate, was the loser of the Chairmanship. Mr. Cummins, who came to Congress in 1908 as a radical and foe of the railways, who fought side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith...
...Coolidges took their weekly cruise aboard the Mayflower. Their guests included several progressives in Congress: Senator and Mrs. Frazier of North Dakota, Representative and Mrs. Dickinson of Iowa, Representative Graham of Illinois. Others of the party were Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Senator McKinley of Illinois, Senator Spencer of Missouri, former Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
...Those states in which consolidation is being effected through a district system. They are Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia...
...Green says he is going to see his daughter.* But the Republicans are not doing anything, anyway. They are only stalling. They have no other object except to stall until pressure can be brought to bear against the bonus." The next day Representative Green (Republican, of Iowa), Chairman of the Committee, ordered the bill made public and it was published at large in the press of the country...
...Equity Players, Roger Bloomer at once gave rise to acrid critical warfare. "Arresting, daring, stimulating, fine," cried some. "Trash, hocuspocus, ineffective nonsense," muttered others. No doubt the publication of the play in book form will arouse an equally lively discussion. The story is that of a dreamy kid from Iowa-his adventures, struggles and failures with life and New York. A novel dramatic experiment well worth reading even by those who will be most irritated...