Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular" Republicans are vigorously opposed to these drastic measures. The restoration of an excess profits tax is considered particularly objectionable. Representative Green of Iowa, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has been considering a bill to improve the administrative provisions of the revenue law. Mr. Green is not a radical and will probably not be in favor of Representative Frear's proposals, but it is feared that if any revenue bill reaches the floor of the House, at least some of the radical proposals might be attached to it by amendment. The same might happen on the floor...
...college who wishes to do graduate study at the University, goes to C. M. Braxton of Jacksonville, Florida, who is now a graduate student at the University of Virginia and will enter the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Charles Elliott Perkins Scholarship for a graduate of an Iowa college or university goes to B. W. Jones of Swarthmore, Pa., Grinnell College...
...James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany. The list of speakers includes Governor Parker of Louisiana, Governor Smith of New York, Governor Silzer of New Jersey and Royal S. Copeland, junior United States Senator from New York. The return to the United States of John T. Adams, of Iowa, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, who has been making a cruise of the Mediterranean, seems likely to be followed by important developments within the Republican party. Mr. Adams, with the record of last Fall's election behind him, is considered an unlikely man to lead the Republican organization...
...IOWA: An ice jam eleven miles long is holding back the waters of' the Missouri River at Sioux City. Floods in various quarters are already noted, and people in the lowlands down stream are fleeing to escape the flood which is expected when the jam breaks...
Hornets are swarming to the mausoleum of Tut-ank-Amen in the Valley of the Kings-evidently attracted by some ingredient used in treating the objects taken from the tomb. Two physicians advanced upon a patient in Clinton, Iowa, to determine his blood pressure. He opened fire with two revolvers, wounded one doctor, shot himself. He then died...