Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things Thames (pronounced Tahm'-ez) Ross Williamson has been. Besides novels he has written textbooks on economics, sociology. His novels (Stride of Man, Run Sheep Run, Gypsy Down the Lane) are meant to constitute a U. S. panorama. He was born on an Indian Reservation near Genesee, Iowa, 35 years ago of U. S. parentage...
...April, 1923, I sent to Wallace's Farmer, published by the Wallace Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, the sum of $11.25 for a perpetual subscription. Just when the plan was announced I do not recall, but I did not respond at once because I had been subscribing on the multiple-year at-reduced-rates basis and did not send the fee for "perpetual" until my prior subscription had run out. The Wallace Publishing Company has sent the paper regularly since, and will continue to do so at my pleasure as long as they publish the paper, and the company...
...began March 4, 1895 and has continued ever since, with the aged Senator still flying vigorously and giving no sign of coming down into the field of private citizenship. This continuous stretch of service has been surpassed by only one U. S. Senator-William Boyd Allison. (1873-1908) of Iowa whose non-stop record of 35 years, five months will fall when Senator Warren and the calendar reach Sept...
...census Congress meets, it will, on estimates of the 1930 count, contain six additional members from California, four from Michigan, three from Ohio, two from New Jersey and Texas, and one from Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington. Subtractions will be three from Missouri; two from Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. Mississippi; one from Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia...
...Famed as flying governors are John H. Trumbull (Conn.), Walter J. Kohler (Wisconsin), John Hammill (Iowa), Harry S. Leslie (Indiana), Harry Flood Byrd (Virginia). Governor Fred Warren Green (Michigan) also flies frequently. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham (Connecticut) is the only Senator who flies frequently. None of President Hoover's Cabinet flies often. Recently Secretaries Adams (Navy), Lament (Commerce) and Davis (Labor) have gone up. Secretary Davis said that he would buy a plane, could he afford...