Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the House passed the Senate's farm relief bill. Representative Haugen's name (Iowa) again joined Senator McNary's (Oregon) as the author of what, in principle, was voted down once and shelved once by the 68th Congress, voted down and then passed by the 69th Congress, and finally vetoed last year by President Coolidge. The controversial nub of the scheme is illustrated in the pig-selling problem set up above. The pig men are U. S. farmers-raisers of livestock, grain, cotton, tobacco. The philanthropist is the U. S. President Coolidge has been willing...
Drake. A wind full of the smell of rain, a long, sawtooth Iowa wind, blew into the faces of runners at Des Homes, caught at the legs of jumpers, tossed thrown javelins like feathers, so that no world's record and only one local record were broken in the Drake relays...
...Atlanta, Iowa, the high school team made 92 hits (16 of them homers) in a game with Griswold, scored 109 runs. Griswold scored zero...
Illinois and Iowa verified their support, binding 58 and 26 votes, respectively, at state conventions...
...lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews It," got third prize...