Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dante Pierce is the publisher of the Iowa Homestead, one of the great farm journals of that state. He will be the next Secretary of Agriculture, if the custom of appointing editors of Iowa farm journals* does not stale. Dante Pierce had much to do with putting Smith Wildman Brookhart into the Senate...
About the time Senator Brookhart was describing the painful poverty of Iowa farmers, Publisher Pierce sent a solicitor to Chicago and New York to renew advertising contracts. " Ah," said the advertisers, " if the farmers of Iowa are broke, it will not pay to advertise in your paper!" Senator Brookhart, reported as strong as ever, is up for re-election next year, but Publisher Pierce is said to be not so enthusiastic...
...Miss Ada Louise Comstock as the third president of Radcliffe College, Saturday morning at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge are George Edwin MacLean, who has been connected with several state universities in the Middle West, having been chancellor of the University of Nebraska and President of the University of Iowa, and who has just returned from Europe where he was head of the American University Union in London; Mr. John H. Finley, editor of the New York Times, a man with many college and university connections; Professor Albert Feuillerat, exchange professor at Harvard this year, who will represent the University...
...University of Michigan recently graduated an Iowa judge at the age of 62. Columbia University graduated a grandmother aged 71 and Kansas University graduated a man of 81 at its last commencement. . . . The three R's are comparatively easy subjects for the adult mind and none are too old to grasp them. . . . " If there should be one Booker T. Washington, Edison or Lincoln among them, although it cost $20,000,000 to bring him out, it would be well worth the price...
...1S.A. of Philadelphia, and Clifford Williams 1S.A. of Georgiaville, R. I. Gouverneur Medwin Peek 3S.A. of Oriando, Florida, a 1920 graduate of J. B. Stetson University, Gerald Warner Brace 2S.A. of New York City, holder of a 1921 A.B. from Amherst, and Otto John Teegan 3S.A. '21 of Davenport, Iowa, have received scholarships. The Edward Austin scholarship in architecture is given to Herbert James Powell 2S.A. of Rediands, California, a graduate of the University of Rediands...