Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should a reapportionment of seats be made on the basis of the 1920 census without increasing the House membership above its present, cumbersome 435, the following States would lose seats: Missouri, 2; Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Mississippi, Nebraska, one each. That is the 2.75% error. Should the estimated census of 1930 be used, 23 seats would be involved, or 5.3% of 435. Losses then would be: Missouri, 3; Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, two each; Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, one each...
...smart set of Des Moines (pop. 148,900), biggest city in Iowa, often amuse themselves with a parlor game: a modern variation of famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
Young Mr. Cowles and his father, Gardner Cowles, have a monopoly of the newspaper business in Des Moines. Their papers, Register (morning and Sunday) and Tribune-Capital (evening), too big for Des Moines, circulate through all Iowa. They are read by more inhabitants of the state where the tall corn grows than any other publications, except possibly the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalog...
...airplane and, last week, it was delivered to his pilot by the Fairchild Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, Long Island.* The plane is to be used by the Register and Tribune-Capital to get news and pictures, to promote aviation in Iowa. It has an enclosed cabin of six-passenger capacity, a darkroom for development of photographs, wings that can be folded, a Wright Whirlwind motor with maximum speed of 120 m.p.h. Readers of the Register and Tribune-Capital were offered $100 in prizes to suggest a name for the plane...
...tilt a Yale paper will be given to both teams). The Harvard men did their writing in a classroom along with 140 other students. The same rules applied, except that the Harvard team was not allowed to smoke. Seven members held scholarships; one, Richard T. Sherman of Algona, Iowa, had been editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson; another, Henry T. Dolan, suffering a fractured kneecap, took his examination in a hospital...