Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly cruise of the Mayflower, the Coolidge guests numbered Actress Julia Arthur, Representative and Mrs. Martin B. Madden of Illinois and John T. Adams of Iowa, onetime Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...battleship Iowa, steaming under radio control, was attacked by airplanes from only 4,000 feet; 80 dummy bombs were dropped and only two hits made, although there was no anti-aircraft fire to disturb the bombers...
...University Hospital at Iowa City, Iowa, recently came a woman suffering from a disease so extraordinary that it appalled the physicians, surgeons, who attended her. She, a certain Mrs. Mary McCormick from Cedar Rapids, had for six years suffered from a form of neuritis. She had journeyed from specialist to specialist without avail. When she entered the hospital, she regarded her death as a matter of weeks. Her originally large body (223 Ibs.) ossified, shrunk to almost nothing (40 Ibs.), the withered flesh hardened, taking on a stony texture; her jaws set, it became impossible for her to eat. Last...
...Burton died last week, only a little over 50, leaving an enviable record as the President of one college and two Universities, all of first-rate importance. In 1874, he was born on a farm at Brooklyn, Iowa. His youth was spent in Minneapolis, and he was obliged to go to work when he had got through his first year of high school. At 19, he resumed his schooling. He was 22 when he entered Carleton College and almost 26 when he was graduated. At 29, he entered the Yale Divinity School. In three years, he took his Bachelor...
...business man. These people, many of them members of Evangelical Churches, have hitherto worked in Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, Universities, asking the question long ago put forward by Charles Sheldon, author of In His Steps?"What would happen if we took Christianity seriously?" Last week, in Des Moines, Iowa, this question was asked as never before by such efficient questioners as John R. Mott, potent Y. M. C. A. chief, and active George Sherwood Eddy, famed preacher. A campaign was organized, backed by the business men of Des Moines, to ask this question of every man, woman and child...