Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SENATE, which organized itself on Dec. 3, with Senator Cummins of Iowa assuming the chair as President pro tem (TIME, Dec. 10), proceeded to adjourn from day to day, waiting for the House to organize...
Thomas Sterling, Senator from South Dakota, will introduce a bill similar to the Towner-Sterling Education Bill, which was not acted upon by the last Congress. Horace M. Towner, Iowa Representative who formerly collaborated with Senator Sterling, is not on hand for the battle, being at present Governor of Porto Rico (TIME, June 25). But the new measure has the support of many educational societies behind it, representing between two and three million members...
Fleckenstein R. G. Iowa...
Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa assumed his seat as President protern, for the Senate?unlike the House ?is a continuing body, two-thirds of its membership retaining their seats from one session to the next. According to a rule adopted in 1890, the President pro tern is elected to "hold office during the pleasure of the Senate and until another is elected...
...four men are Robert L. Hyatt, Jr., '24 of Monticello, Arkansas; Felin I. Shaffner '25 of Phoenix, Arizona; Wilton D. Cole '24 of Webster City, Iowa; and Carter M. Braxton 1G, of Jacksonville, Florida. Braxton was elected as a candidate from the University of Virginia. These elections are subject to ratification by the Rhodes trustees...