Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, Iowa's Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, one end of McNary- Haugenism, sulked pettishly. Wedded to the equalization fee, he allowed Illinois' Thomas S. Williams to guide the hearings, stamp the bill with the Williams political trademark. In the Senate, Oregon's McNary, blithe and chipper despite defeat after defeat, exuded optimism...
...Erratum-Noter Scott glance again at the Michigan Alumnus, find therein the words: "James Good came to Ann Arbor after securing a Bachelor of Arts degree from Coe College at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, his home." TIME referred to Secretary of War Good as Coe-educated. Also the Michigan Alumnus pridefully noted: "Once before as many as three Michigan alumni sat around a cabinet table. That was when Harry M. Daugherty '81/, Edwin L. Denby '96/, and Hubert Work,'82-83, were all appointed by Warren G. Harding. Dr. Work alone of this trio remained over into...
...Reporter. Redheaded, gaunt and cadaverous, Super-Reporter Lewis sniffs atmosphere with a long, peculiar nose, pierces actuality with swift sharp glances. He early attained universal notoriety for Main Street and Babbitt, but long before that he had struggled as unsuccessful newspaper hack in Waterloo, Iowa, in San Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy...
JESSIE SMITH LEACH Adel, Iowa...
Telegrams of congratulations to the happy parents of Herbert Hoover Smith of Vinton, Iowa take precedence over massacres in the Balkans. The wife of the President receives a delegation of the Camp Fire Girls in the Blue room; the President waves a fond farewell to the friends from home while the Secretary of the Navy is detained in the anteroom as a suspicious character. Far away is the echo of a voice, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth...