Iowa Legislature Passes Broad Lawmaking File
Iowa lawmakers approve measures on taxes and education funding, voting reforms, and a movie censorship bill while referencing various counties and cities. Key items include Beeman campaign limits, a state fair board election plan, a ten verse Bible reading mandate proposed for schools, and a convention to redraw the state constitution in 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston
Shenandoah
John Guiney
Marshalltown
Ernie Young
Chicago
Iowa House
McCulloch
State Fair Board
House
Kime
Webster
Beeman
Grenwood
Ways and Means Committee
Francis
Iowa
Senate
Committee On Appropriations
Iowa Senate
Supreme Court
Bayard
Price
S. E. Julander
Des Moines
R. B. Bean
J. W. Daugherty
Mason City
State Board of
Chiro- Practic Examiners
Kendal
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mayme
County Board of Education
Ingersoll
Farm Bureau
Fonda
John K. Mahon
Samuel Mahon
Notable Obituaries From The Week's End
Frank C. Bancroft longtime Cincinnati baseball manager dies at Deaconess hospital after long illness. Cardinal James Gibbons laid to rest in Baltimore given centuries old rites. E Haviland head of porcelain firm dies in Limoges France, descendant of Theodore Haviland. John Burroughs, famed naturalist, dies on a Kingsville train at eighty four after wintering in Pasadena. Mrs George Pullman of Chicago, bronchial pneumonia death in Pasadena at eighty two.
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Frank C. Bancroft
Cincinnati Baseball Club
Deaconess Hospital
Cincinnati
James Cardinal Gibbons
Palimu
E. Haviland
Limoges
France
Haviland
Theodore Haviland
John Burroughs
New York Central
Kingsville
Pasadena
Cal
George Pullman
Chicago
Harding Boosts Rail Talks After Census of Finances
Washington regulates liquor withdrawals to 100 gallons per quarter for retailers. President Harding meets with ICC Chairman Clark and railway labor board Chief Barton to ease rail financial distress. Katherine Shea hands him a pay check near $6,000 as his first pay day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Washington
Harding
Clark
Interstate Commerce Commission
Barton
Railway Labor Board
Katherine Shea
Treasury
Physical Welfare Drive Aims at Coordinated Work
Aims to study health, education, contagious diseases and welfare work to determine needs and unify agencies under a public welfare bureau. The effort seeks a common plan to improve the physical welfare of the people through systematic cooperation. President Harding supports the initiative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Public Welfare
Harding
Senate confirms unusual undersecretary nomination
The nomination was confirmed by the Senate on March 8 after Lodge reported it and sought unanimous consent in executive session. Senator Underwood had no objection but noted many confirmations were withheld. Lodge stated David Davis will exit but praised his competence and hinted he may continue work with the International Communications Commission on telegraph lines after leaving office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Brookhart
Clark
Railroad Commission
Commission
House
Pitt
Buser
Holdoegel
Dodd
Iowa
State Revenue Collector
Department of Revenue
Olson
Fackler
Shores
Gunderson
Appropriations Committee
Washington
Louisa
Bradley
Iowa House
Judiciary Committee
National Guard
House of Representatives
Arch McFarlane
Mayne
Palo Alto
Edgington
Monona County
Lockin
Cherokee County
Mills
Harrison County
Letts
Washington County
Howard County
Elliott
Scott County
Blake
Fayette County
Powers
Crawford County
D.e Maines
A. O. Hauge
Campbell
Farm Bureau Federation
W. L. Maton
Carl Fairchild
Fairchild
Harlan
Mason
Whitmore
Aente
Foreign Relations, ‘Committee
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Rep
Underwood
Alabama
Lodge
Davis
International Communications Commission
Hirohito to Visit Europe on Historic Voyage
Crown Prince Hirohito journeys to Europe becoming the first ruling family member abroad since ancient times. He sails with 1500 trunks and a large suite, visiting British ports en route to England. The trip is framed as study of conditions and stirs talk of Anglo Japanese ties and the betrothal’s fate remains unsettled amid court intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hirohito
Japan
Europe
Jingo- Koge
Straits
Korea
England
Imperial Household Department
Nagako
Fletcher Named Undersecretary of State in Harding Cabinet
Henry FP Fletcher appointed as undersecretary of state. Former ambassador to Mexico from 1916 to February 1920, he resigned amid shifts to a Mexican policy with Albert B. Fall as secretary of the interior. Fletcher, a diplomat by training, began legal practice in 1894-98 in Pennsylvania. Born 1878 in Greencastle, he served as a private in the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Fp, Fletcher
Mexico
Albert B. Fall
Fall
Fietcher
State’ Department
Harding
Pennsylvania
Gewich
Wing
Greencastla
Theodore
Seepiene
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Federal Reserve Board
Carla Neal
Frank Zimmer
Grover Bergdoll
Baden
Berlin
Firestone Tire and Rabber Company
Akron
Breckenridge
Tex
Media
Eugene C. Weeks
Polk District Court
Sand Point
Idaho
Somers Match Company
Saginaw, Mich
J. K. Myers
Stuart
Bandi Ts
William C. Adams
Federal Fisheries Bureau
Boston
George Gwyck
Fort Madison
John Obenberger Forge Company
Milwaukee
Geiger
City Bank
St. Paul, Minn
Walker Street
Third
Walnut Streets
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas City
Daugherty
Eugene V. Debs
International Red Cross Committee
Geneva
Gustave Ader
Switzerland
St.Marks Navy Yard
Trieste
Wilhelm Sylt
Charles G. Dawes
War Risk Bureau
Ross Carbery
County Cork
Erinis
London
Vienna
Hungary
Ghories
Foreign Office
Tokyo
Leonard Wood
Philippines
Lawrence Rew
Birnumwood
Wis
Margaret
Argonne Forest
Paris
Virgil Decker
Lydia Decker
Fred
Carl Decker
Kosciusko County Grand Jury
Warsaw
Inod
Leroy Lovett
Ventzetos
United States
Athens
Burlington
Independent Labor Party
Southport
Lenin
Ford Motor Company
Lansing
Mich
Chicago Yards
Ehr
Eee Tay Perey Core
Fletcher
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