Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That there would be a scramble in the midlands over the 1928 nomination was visible a year ago. Herbert Hoover began looking around for a Midwestern manager. It was natural for him to ask James William Good, a onetime (1909-1921) Congressman from Iowa. Secretary Hoover had known Congressman Good as an able legislative Committeeman. He came from Cedar Rapids, near the Hoover birthplace (West Branch). Above all, he was the man who had organized the Midwest for Calvin Coolidge in the 1924 campaign...
Chicagoans these three mighty bankers are, but by migration. The Reynolds brothers were born at Panora, Guthrie County, Iowa. George M.'s first important job was as clerk with the Guthrie County National Bank at Panora. (The town's population is now barely 1,000.) Arthur ran a drug store there for ten years, and then followed his brother into the Guthrie
...night fell, the Nominee appeared before the multitude. "This," he said, with some emotion, "is a home-coming." He talked about his and their pioneer ancestors; about his first schoolteacher, Mrs. Molly Brown Carran, who was present, gazing up through thick-lensed eyeglasses at her prodigious pupil. He recalled Iowa's apples, rabbits, nuts, fishing. He returned again to the Old Swimming Hole: "As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole," he said. "But I doubt if the decrease in mothers' grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting...
...Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, both Dakotas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan...
Died. Mrs. Ella Traver Allen, mother-in-law of Mayor James Walker of New York; at Clinton, Iowa, before his train reached there; of pernicious anemia...