Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recovering from combat fatigue, talked with impressive sincerity. His debt, according to the investigators' subsequent report, dated back to the death of his father in 1933: the elder Hanley had died the owner of $75,000 worth of stock in a bank which had failed in Muscatine, Iowa. Joe was not legally responsible, but he had shouldered his father's $150,000 double-liability obligation, and he had spent years of scraping and pinching in an attempt to make it good...
...lawyer showed the investigators a promissory note for $150,000 made out to one C. C. Hagerman of Muscatine, Iowa. It bore notations of payments on its back; the last, for $28,000, was entered on Sept. 12, 1949. The note was marked "Paid" and bore the initials "C.T.C." The sleutHs obtained a photostatic copy and departed...
Gaudiest of all the latter-day tramps was a loudly dressed, 2501b. giant named Charles Colfelt. A former Iowa bricklayer and California caterer, Colfelt breezed into Tegucigalpa at the head of a caravan of cars, trucks and house-trailers, and rented a whole floor of the Pan American Hotel. As president of the Honduran division of a Salt Lake City stock company called the "Pan American Mining and Development Co.," Colfelt announced that he had chartered a fleet of DC-3s to haul equipment upcountry, then began setting up drinks for all comers in the hotel bar. One suspicious investor...
...Doctor's Dilemma" revived for me the impotent fury which always attended a recitation of similar experiences by my father, "a horse and buggy doctor" for 50 years in central Iowa...
Chicago: December 27, James P. Baxter '41, 38 South Dearbon Street; Cincinnati: December 29, J. Gerald Heathcote, 1331 Carew Tower; Cleveland: William L. Calfee '39, 1956 Union Commerce Building; Dayton, Ohio: J. H. Ruggles, 2727 Inland Avenue; Eastern lowa: Summer H. Foster '32, 2315 Linden Drive S.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Eastern Michigan: Clark T. Wells '33, 39 Handy Road, Grosse Point Farm, Michigan...