Word: huxman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill vacancies in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the President appointed Calvert Magruder, counsel of the Wage & Hour Administration (1st Circuit, Boston) and Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas (10th Circuit, the Southwest...
Rena Stinson, 27, expert rifle shot and personal secretary to Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas, closed her desk in the State Capitol for the last time last week as her chief went out of office. She went home, began to clean her target rifle, shot herself in the left breast, almost but not quite fatally...
...will have as his ticket mate (for Governor) Lawyer Payne H. Ratner of Parsons, an energetic friend of Alf ("Fire Belly") Landon and Republican National Chairman John Hamilton. Senator McGill's mate will be Governor Walter Huxman, whose renomination was unopposed, whose campaigning ability is not superlative. To Democrats, the defeat of "intolerant" Mr. Winrod and nomination of able Mr. Reed may well presage Senator McGill's downfall...
...Girls' Industrial School at Beloit, Kans., is a gloomy looking "corrective" institution whose normal student body is composed of girls under 19 convicted of minor crimes. Last January, when Democrat Walter A. Huxman replaced Republican Alfred Landon as Governor of Kansas, the superintendent of Beloit, Republican Lulu Coyner was replaced by Democrat Blanche Peterson. Kansas' onetime (1933-35) Democratic Congresswoman Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy recently paid a call on Mrs. Peterson. Result of her call was an uproar which last week made Beloit front page news throughout...
...House voted, 75 to 36, to make the Plummer-Schrepel 3.2% beer bill the new prohibition law of Kansas. Democratic Governor Walter A. Huxman had already announced that he would sign any prohibition bill providing a reasonable definition of "intoxicating" beverages. Thus, last week, a squiggle of his pen made two Drys the unwilling fathers of legal beer in Kansas...