Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four more minutes were consumed while the Senate met as the Senate to swear in David W. Stewart of Iowa as the successor of the late Senator Albert B. Cummins, and to hear the announcements and condolences of the deaths of Senators Cummins and Bert M. Fernald of Maine...
...Brookhart was in the Senate from 1922 to 1925. In Iowa young David W. Stewart, Republican, was elected without opposition to finish the term of the late Senator Cummins in the 69th Senate...
This amounts to a defy to the governments of the world, for it flatly infringes the rights of foreign nationals as they are understood in international law. An Iowa farmer who writes an "exaggerated report" about his Italian farm hand to his brother in Timbuktu might under this law be imprisoned for 15 years should he ever be caught in Italy...
...Hall is both a former ace of the Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia, to Iceland and back to Tahiti. His first chapter set in the Iowa village and describing the various soldiers of fortune passing through on the sleepers gives promise, but for the rest Hall is too self-conscious, inadequate, and careless...
Then, too, he comes from Iowa, a land of pioneers and Methodism. With the wanderlust he combines a purpose, which for me rather crippled its appeal. He feels it "a fitting thing that men of nomadic habits should give, from time to time, some account of their wanderings to the Spartan souls who carry on the world's work. Thus may all itinerants render some small service to society, and--those who will--take the road again with a lighter conscience." Mr. Hall then writes from a sense of duty. Now a sense of duty is not inspirational--I know...