Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury on June 30 made it safe to prophesy without peradventure that there would be further tax reduction in 1926. Mr. Mellon will probably leave the initiative to the Ways and Means Committee of the House, headed by Congressman William R. Greene of Iowa, thereby giving the Committeemen something to do in late summer and early fall and appeasing their pride-the pride of Congress which,a year ago, refused to swallow the "Mellon Bill," ready-made by the Treasury Department...
...business. In the old days, John was a clown, appeared twice daily under the big top, sang, with extraordinary results, a ditty entitled Root, Hog, or Die. He has been accredited the shrewdest of the seven circus boys; when they put on their first show, in 1882, in McGregor, Iowa, where they had been born, he was the one who collected the admission.? In 1907, they bought all of the Barnum and Bailey interests at the absurdly low price of $410,000. Among the minor achievements of John Ringling is the acquirement of three Western railroads. Such...
...Charles Eliot Perkins scholarships, founded in 1909, have been awarded to graduates of low educational institutions: Harold E. Breitenbauch, a graduate of Grinnell College, who will study in the Law School, and John J. Hinrichsen of Iowa State University, who will enter the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Shortly after the closing of Congress, Representatives William R. Green of Iowa, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued a statement foreseeing tax reduction ? surtax reduction in particular. Last week, Secretary cf the Treasury Mellon and UnderSecretary Winston spoke before the Bankers Club of Richmond further outlining their program...
...Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a choir of twelve women sang Nearer, My God, to Thee at an honorary memorial service for Fanny Crosby, hymn writer. The youngest of these women was Mrs. Emma Ankeny, 74; the oldest Mrs. Mary Burke, 92; average age of the twelve...