Word: towners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home Towners. Mr. George M. Cohan contrasts the comparative virtues of South Bend and New York much to the advantage of the latter in his new comedy. A native of the Indiana town who has made a fortune in New York invites his boyhood friend to the city to be best man at his marriage to a Manhattan girl. But the small towner, known as "Pig Head" Ban croft, is suspicious of all folks from the city and he manages to disrupt the romance temporarily before he is convinced that virtue is not lost to New Yorkers. About this scenario...
...Extended from five to seven years the life of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity...
...Visitors at the White House included Governor Towner, of Porto Rico; President Koerner, of the Supreme Court of Czecho-Slovakia; Augusto Cochrane de Alencar, Ambassador from Brazil...
...Visitors at the White House included : Judge E. H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, who declared that the change to an eight-hour day in the steel mills had increased the cost of production 10%; Governor Towner of Porto Rico and members of the Porto Rican legislature; the "Coolidge-for-President" Club of New Jersey-its members wearing six-inch red-white-and-blue buttons, "Coolidge Again"; Speaker Gillett of the House, introducing his nephew; Sir Robert Home; Charles D. Hilles, Republican leader in New York; Comptroller of the Currency Dawes and three Indianapolis bankers; Governor Morrow...
Thomas Sterling, Senator from South Dakota, will introduce a bill similar to the Towner-Sterling Education Bill, which was not acted upon by the last Congress. Horace M. Towner, Iowa Representative who formerly collaborated with Senator Sterling, is not on hand for the battle, being at present Governor of Porto Rico (TIME, June 25). But the new measure has the support of many educational societies behind it, representing between two and three million members...