Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, points out Superintendent Hunter of Oakland, Cal., youths are violating either their word or the law in California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, Washington...
Despite the pronounced mannish tendencies of the late Dr. Mary Walker, modern Washingtonians have perhaps been inclined to consider the capital comparatively free from advocates of secentric dress. But they have not yet dined with Senator Brookhart of Iowa. Shrugging his broad shoulders contemptuously at custom, precedent, and style, he insists on informality at any cost. "If I am asked to the White House," he says, "or to any other state occasion. I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm." It is thought that the shoes, of a rich ochre tint...
...Iowa, a bill (passed by the Senate) making the same offense manslaughter...
...threatened to wear overalls to formal dinners, naturally finds it contrary to his principles to wear a silk hat. But he is willing to make an exception. " I will wear a silk hat," said he, " at the inauguration to the Presidency of Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa...
Dinner Committee.--Chairman, Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, Iowa; sub-chairmen, Malcolm Whelen Greenough of Boston, George Saltonstall Mumford of Chestnut Hill; Edward Mauran Beals Jr. of Boston, Walter Scott Blanchard of Concord, Alden Briggs of Brookline, Henri de Castellani of Paris, France, Philip Wigglesworth Chase of Milton, Alfred Codman Jr. of Boston, Lewis Mills Gibb of New York, N. Y., Robert Haydock Hallowell Jr. of Milton, John William Hammond of West Roxbury, John Rodman Hooker of San Mates, California, Sylvester Baker Kelley of Reading, James Jap Mapes of New York, N. Y. Charles Lawrence Peirson of Essex Fells...