Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subscriber Brown fell asleep in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while reading TIME. He has not stated what bored...
...renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from the Midwest, born and raised in Iowa, taken to Washington by a patron (Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury Leslie Mortier Shaw), experienced in the work of the Department by two years there (1906-08) as a junior attorney, further trained through holding offices as mayor, judge and state senator in South Dakota. In June...
Further plans are being completed for two teams to tour the country during the Christmas vacation. One will go to Des Moines, Iowa, the other to Atlanta, Georgia, and each will take part in four debates in intermediate cities...
...Herald and Examiner.* Cleveland, with more than a million inhabitants, has only one morning newspaper, two evening. The climax of the urge to merge is the city with a complete newspaper monopoly-a morning-evening-Sunday paper under the ownership of one man or corporation. Des Moines, Iowa, has such a newspaper. It is owned by an aggressive young Harvard graduate, John Cowles, and his father. Its morning and evening editions have different names, but the monopoly is complete- the result of several consolidations. Castigators have often said that a monopoly breeds stagnation-not to mention other moral evils...
Laundries. Another field for mergers is that of laundries. Last week bankers were grouping 19 laundries and dry cleaning companies of Illinois and Iowa as Mid-Continent Laundries...