Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life. He was born in Lucas, a small Iowa mining town, on Feb. 12, 1880, of Welsh parents who immigrated in the 70's. His father was a blacklisted coal miner in the " Big Screen Strike" of 1882 and was forced to go to Des Moines. Those were the times of the ten-and eleven-hour day and a minimum wage...
...Moines, Iowa...
...education, which was never formal after early high school days, is broad, and in some respects, deep. A voracious reader, he has taught himself what most academicians do not know how to teach-the ability to think constructively. His training as a writer began with reporting days in Davenport, Iowa. Later, in Chicago, he became associate, then editor of the Literary Page of the Evening Post, a position now ably filled by the wise (as well as clever) Llewellyn Jones, Since then he has been converted in one way or another with The Masses and The Liberator, but he likes...
Bonus bonds without buyers in Iowa...
...IOWA: A bond issue of $22,000,000 for a state soldier bonus is still being offered for sale. Daily the State Treasurer holds a bond auction-and has done so for over two weeks, but no buyers attend...