Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treatment was devised, dubbed the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act. Still the geese fail to produce their golden fruit. There is a chorus of new proposals. Senator Cummins of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and others of his group favor consolidation. They say in effect: " Let us put all the geese into half a dozen large goosepens. Then those less inclined to lay will emulate those more inclined to lay, and we shall have eggs." Radicals, such as Senator La Follette, favor drastic cuts in freight rates, saying: " The geese are suffering from a plethora. A little dieting...
...letter to William R. Green of Iowa, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Mellon directly opened the question of bonus vs. reduced taxes?deliberately opening the issue several weeks before it would normally be approached, deliberately striking the first blow. He laid out a program for tax reduction, showing just how much in dollars and cents it will save to each group of 14,000,000 incoming taxpayers. He added: "A soldiers' bonus would postpone tax reduction not for one but for many years to come...
President, Malcolm Whelen Greenough of Boston; vice-president, Philip Spalding of Milton; secretary-treasurer, Gardner Cowles Jr., of Des Moines, Iowa; Student Council members, Leonard Lispenard Robb of Troy, New York; Edward Mauran Beals Jr. of Boston; Willis Paine Beal of Boston; and Alden Briggs of Brookline...
...been definitely concluded. Major Moore was particularly emphatic in declaring that Harvard had no prolonged agreement to play Dartmouth. He even intimated that Dartmouth might be replaced before long on the Harvard football schedule in the mid-season game by a team from the University of California, Notre Dame, Iowa, or some other college outside New England...
Their program. When this bill is introduced it will " have hard sled- fling " in committee, as Messrs. Borah and Woodruff admit. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, especially, there will be difficulty, for the Committee includes Brandegee of Connecticut (Chairman), Cummins of Iowa, Colt of Rhode Island, Sterling of South Dakota, Shortridge of California, Walsh of Montana. Almost its only supporters will be Mr. Borah himself and Senator Norris of Nebraska. But the proponents of the bill hope to get it out on the floor of Congress and fight for it there...