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Great is the name of Maytag in Jasper County, Ia. In Newton, the county seat, is Maytag Co's 14-acre plant, where last year some 1,500 workers turned out $16,984,966.28 worth of Maytag washing machines. In Newton, too, is many another reason why the memory of the late Frederick Louis Maytag still is green. Newton's 11,500 residents get their water from a Maytag-built system, their electricity from a plant which he established. They play in a $450,000 Maytag park, have a $1,000,000, air-cooled Maytag hotel, office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Jasper County | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...singles victors were Homer Peabody, Barney Straus, Jasper Dick, Hubert Earle, and Don Marvin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING NETMEN WIN 6-2 | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...Yardlings swept the six singles and three doubles matches with the loss of but one set. Ross Lyell, Homer Peabody, Barney Straus, Jasper Dick, Julian McGee and Ted Miller turned in the singles victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Triumph | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

Last year, Speaker Bankhead lived up to his own advice as well as he followed his father's. This winter, after nearly three months' holiday at Jasper, Ala. (pop. 5,313) in Walker County which contains a town, a highway and a Resettlement project named for the Bankheads. Speaker Bankhead returned to Washington better equipped than he was last year for the rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Days | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Married. Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 35, daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives; to Actor John Emery, 32; in Jasper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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