Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. This is the story of the education of Fremont McConkey, Hawkeye?how he and the State of Iowa grew up together. The bare-foot boy, born in a sod hut, who assimiliated a curious education from back numbers of The New York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen?a prosperous, successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six decades the people of that region had bridged the gulf between a life like that of the border ballads?...
...Author. (John) Herbert Quick, like Fremont McConkey, was born in Iowa (Oct. 23, 1861), reared on a farm, educated in country schools. He has had a varied career as teacher, lawyer, associate editor of La Follette's Weekly, editor of Farm and Fireside and free-lance writer. He fought the boodlers of Sioux City, was three times nominated for its Mayor and once elected. In 1920 he was Chairman of the Commission in Charge of Affairs in the Far East of the American Red Cross. He now lives in West Virginia. Until the appearance of Vandemark's Folly (widely praised...
...Districts of Minnesota, northern Iowa, southern Iowa, eastern Missouri, western Missouri, eastern Arkansas, western Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, eastern Oklahoma, western Oklahoma, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico...
Three awards in the School of Public Health have been won by men from California, Rhode Island and Iowa. Dr. W. J. Connell of Dubuque, Iowa, a member of the Iowa State Board of Health, has received a fellowship of the School of Public Health. He graduated from the Illinois College of Medicine in 1919 and is taking his first year of work at the University this year. H. B. Elkind of Howard, Rhode Island, a '15 graduate of Tufts Medical School, and a '22 of Clark University holds the second, while Clarence Olds Sappington 2P.H., of San Francisco, California...
...boards of the Harvard Business Review elected the following officers for 1923-1924 at a meeting Friday night: Chairman, Shaw Livermore 2G.B. of Evanston, Illinois, a Dartmouth graduate; Vice-chairman, J. H. Leighton 2G.B. of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, a Harvard College graduate; and Secretary, J. C. Howell 2G.B. of Leon, Iowa, a Simpson College graduate...