Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporter of the lone Washington paper* which carried this story made it up out of whole cloth. My adjusted service certificate was correctly made out and acknowledged from Iowa a year ago. There was no misspelling. No complaint was made to the Adjutant General. No employe of the Department was demoted as a result of any such error...
Last week Senator Cummins of Iowa introduced into the Senate a new transportation bill?a bill which seems destined to be a bone of contention. These are, by and large, its provisions...
...Francisco the "All-Western Eleven," made up of star players from Leland Stanford, the University of California, Oregon Agricultural College, etc., defeated 6 to 0 the "All-Eastern Eleven," whose players hailed from West Point, the University of Michigan, Florida State, Pittsburgh, Drake, Iowa, Georgia Tech, etc. The proceeds of the fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic...
Hanford MacNider is 36. He is a banker, a soldier, a Harvard graduate. He hails from Mason City, Iowa, where he was born, and worked in a bank until he went to war. He served in the A. E. F. from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel, at Chateau Thierry and Soissons, and after the War went back to Mason City and banking. His "buddies" (comrades) elevated him to State Commander of the American Legion, then to National Commander, because he had their welfare at heart...
...Woman of the World. Pola Negri in a light comedy is unusual. The light comedy is only fairly comic, which is rather more usual. She plays a European temptress who pounces down upon a small Iowa town and quite disrupts the population, including the stalwart and belligerent sheriff...