Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lane of 14-foot cornstalks appeared at the West Branch, Iowa, railroad station. Down it, early one morning, last week, marched Nominee Hoover with his wife and sons. Automobiles carried them through the proudest village in the U. S. to a house of which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what...
...yonder" the party headed, but thick Iowa gumbo prevailed. The reminiscers turned back to their automobile, hot and muddy. Not until the afternoon, when persevering, he returned to the streamlet, did the Nominee see the place where small "Bertie" Hoover used to splash...
Buses. Out of Washington, D. C., rolled two spanking motor buses, red, white and blue, laden with loudspeakers and literature. One had the same destination as the eastbound Hoover Special-West Branch, Iowa, the Hoover birthplace. The other rolled for Providence, R. I., to campaign with Curtis. This new ballyhoo was called "garage-storming...
Drugs. Through the organization of the McKesson & Robbins Holding Co., U.S. wholesale druggists consolidated an annual sales volume of $80,000,000. Into the merger came: McKesson & Robbins Co. (N.Y., Conn.); Gibson Snow Co. (N.Y.); Bedsole-Colvin Co. (Ala.); Churchill Co. (Ill., Iowa, Neb.); Eastern Co. (Mass.); Farrand, Williams & Clark Co. (Mich.); Faxon & Gallagher Co (Mo.); Fuller Morrison Co. (Ill.); Halvan Gorder Co. (O.); Kirk, Geary & Co. (Calif.); Langley Michaels Co. (Calif.); Minneapolis Co. (Minn.); Murray Co (S.C.); Roeber & Kuebler (N.J.); Southern Co. (Tex.); Western Wholesale Co. (Calif., Ariz...
...Author. MacKinlay Kantor, Iowa born and bred, contributed much padding and less literature to his mother's local magazine, got considerable publicity from his ballad on Floyd Collins in the Chicago Tribune column, and worked, like the hero of his first novel, for County Cook. He wrote Diversey in three months, and until the royalties come in, he is supporting his wife and child on detective stories...