Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have an International debate here with the University of Sydney, Australia, on the question: "Resolved, that the Modern Press exercises a harmful influence on the Community." Iowa State will uphold the negative. Since TIME is a weekly newsmagazine* which attempts to assimilate and re-picture news from a wide variety of sources, your staff must be able to present some very definite conclusion about the effects of news, editorials and advertisements of the Press of the country. Would you mind, therefore, telling me briefly what this re-action is, and how the TIME staff is guided in its own editorial...
Department of Public Speaking Iowa State College Ames, Iowa...
...fortnight ago, word leaked out that Senator Robert M. LaFollette and the insurgent Republicans are planning a filibuster against appropriation bills in the 69th Congress in order to force a special session of the 70th. Last week Senator-elect Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa added his booming voice to the movement. Said he: "Since about a million farmers have lost their property or their homes during the last six years, and the vast majority of them are now facing disaster, the most speedy and drastic action is demanded. Anybody who thinks this battle can be won by whistling 'Yankee...
...production with reasonable profit." They approved of the Federal Farm Board plan, backed by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. They defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers in the Republican party, so is Edwin T. Meredith, Iowa farm journal publisher, onetime Secretary of Agriculture, their Democratic friend. If, by some upheaval of politics, the farm bloc should gain control of both parties, these two men might be found running for President against each other...
...Cowboy" Kutsch of Iowa was good coming on. Crofoot of Wisconsin was good going away. On a slippery field, web-footed Crofoot wrestled a Kutsch-as-Kutsch-can victory out of the mud. Score: Wisconsin, 20; Iowa...