Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cresco, Iowa, careful readers of the local newspaper lately shuddered with apprehension upon reading the following advertisement...
...shouted "Hail Moscow!" as it passed through Berlin. Died. Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, 61, editor, Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal; at his desk in Memphis; of apoplexy. Thoroughly-trained journalist, bedrock Jacksonian Democrat, re ligious fundamentalist, his loss to the South parallels that of "Lafe" Young (TIME, Nov. 29) to Iowa...
Nineteen banks closed in Palo Alto and Kossuth counties, Iowa; another string closed in Clay county, Iowa; there followed the suspension of the Clarinda (Iowa) National Bank. Tellers, bookkeepers and businessmen canvassed the countryside to persuade depositors to leave their money in the embarrassed banks...
...then boomed. Now it has a circulation of some 850,000. Farmers read it avidly, become wise, grow bigger and better crops. In 1914 and 1916, Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were not downcast- after all, Iowa was a staunch Republican state and Mr. Meredith, however able, was a Democrat. As Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), Mr. Meredith was in his element. He awakened scientists to problems agrarian; he set his Department on hundreds of investigations; he made the farmers understand that the services of the Department...
...take a Joest. He took him on his back, side, flanks, and kept on running. Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth have failed this season to do what Abbiatti, a fullback from New Hampshire, did to Brown, but after his touchdown the Iron Men started. Score: Brown, 40; New Hampshire, 12. Iowa has its Kutsch but Northwestern has its Baker, Lewis and Gustafson, so the co-educational institution on the shores of Lake Michigan finished its first undefeated Big Ten season, out on the prairies of Iowa City. Score: Northwestern, 13; Iowa, 6. Fortnight ago, the toe of Myers Clark of Ohio...