Word: iowan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managed to elect a judge of their own choosing, Landscapist Frederic Tellander of Chicago. Great was their chagrin when Judge Tellander looked over the lot, selected River Bend by Marvin Cone, art instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone showed that eminent Iowan's stylistic influence. River Bend was a sweep of stream and a bent road over a round hill nibbled at the bottom by a quarry, all huddled under a low sky of close-flapping clouds. On Manhattan's 57th Street it would have delighted dilettantes. But Iowa "Conservatives" sent...
...land prices in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming up as much as 33% from last year. More than 50% of buyers are bona fide settlers. A farm near Omaha lately sold for $155 per acre, a half-section in Sac County, Iowa for $135 per acre. A northern Iowan reported an offer of $110 per acre for land he lately bought...
...established in 1909 by Mrs. Charles Elliott Perkins, in memory of her husband. Of the four, one is awarded to a resident of Iowa living in that part of the state now served by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad. A second is given to a student in any Iowan high school whatsoever. The last two are for graduates of any Iowan college or university who are now doing work at one of the Harvard Graduate or Professional Schools. Announcement of the awarding of the other three scholarships has not yet been made...
From the University of Michigan comes the voice of a reader protesting against these results, not on the grounds of the right of a student paper to conduct such investigations, but on the basis of the validity of the method. And the Daily Iowan, publication of the University of Iowa student body, frankly confesses disbelief...
Your editorial February 28th, regarding eighteenth amendment, and reprinted in State University of Iowa, "Dally Iowan" of March 5th, has a lot of meat...