Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father's farm at Ainsworth, Iowa, he was born in 1860. At 19, his education was complete. His father wanted him to study Law. He wanted to study Medicine. So he got a job as fireman on a locomotive. Five years and three-quarters he fired. Then he was made engineer and for 19 years and one-quarter he drove freight trains and passenger trains. Then, one day in 1903, the Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers died and he was elected to the post. He went to the headquarters of the organization at Cleveland...
...most inspiring if it did take a long time. And the judges were at last able to decide that the best oration had been furnished by blond, curly-headed E. Wight Bakke, 22, of Onawa, Iowa, a junior at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). They awarded the $2,000 first prize to Bakke for saying, among other things, that the U. S. Constitution is not "an old faded parchment in the Nation's capital, but a document written on the heart of every American. It bears not 39 signatures; for each of us it is signed by but one name...
...President, on the advice of the Secretary of Labor, appointed onetime (1915-25) U. S. Congressman Harry E. Hull of Iowa to be Commissioner General of Immigration in succession to W. W. Husband, promoted to be Assistant Secretary of Labor in charge of Immigration...
Pretty rabid talk, isn't it ? You would see red, too, if you had seen all your savings melt away because you owned an equity in an Iowa farm when financiers saw fit to de press and deflate. The hell of it is that thousands of farmers in this state and others saw the same thing, and who got the money? Tell us who got the money...
...Iowa farm pays interest on the investment. The farmer himself and the whole family work at least 14 hours per day for less than one semiskilled laborer gets for eight hours, and he throws in the interest on his investment for nothing...