Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probity. They are not "distinguished" men, as distinction goes, but they are able and honorable. Commissioner John Jacob Esch of La Crosse, Wis., chairman of the Commission last year, served in the U. S. House of Representatives for 21 years before his work with Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa on the Transportation Act of 1920 brought him wide notice. His elevation to the Commission followed in 1921. The new occupant of the Commission's chair (each man has his turn) is Commissioner Johnston B. Campbell, long a railroad lawyer in Duluth and Spokane. Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, who dissented...
...There," you would hear people in Washington say when 38-year-old Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider stepped by, "goes a coming man. A Roosevelt from Iowa...
...much vitality as ambition, a hard head, and a multitude of friends everywhere (in 1922-23 he commanded the American Legion). The sum of these is political potency. When he resigned his post last week there instantly was talk about Col. Hanford MacNider's running for Senator from Iowa next autumn. In Iowa, he was even mentioned for the Vice Presidency...
...native Mason City, Iowa, where he will return after a trip to Europe, they know that business does not worry Hanford MacNider. He is going to build a new house there. He is going "to bring up our two sons in their own home town." He is going, though not as a delegate, to the Republican convention at Kansas City...
Hanford MacNider may not run for office next autumn but, as Washington judges men, he will run for something, somewhere, soon. As Washington judges politicians, he will get there. In. Col. MacNider's successor, chosen at his suggestion months ago, was another Iowa banker and American Legionary, Col. Charles Burton Robbins of Cedar Rapids. Aged 50, Col. Robbins served against the Spaniards, was wounded in the head. He has an insurance business (Cedar Rapids Life). He has been a judge. As able a Big-Desk man as his young predecessor he is more the type of man who will...