Word: jayhawker
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...expected to do this was a Kansas City coal man named Kenneth Aldred Spencer, president of the Spencer Chemical Co. He got Jayhawk on a lease with an option to buy for $20,000,000, two-thirds of the original cost of the plant...
...Midwest farmers, there was good news last week from the little town of Baxter Springs, Kan. (pop. 4,921). The news: the RFC-owned Jayhawk Ordnance Works, giant producer of chemicals for wartime explosives, had been taken over by a private company to make badly needed ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Jayhawk expected to become the world's largest maker of it, cut $3 to $4 a ton off prices to farmers...
...hard-driving Kenneth Spencer, 44, was a newcomer to the fertilizer business. But he was no newcomer to Jayhawk. In fact, Jayhawk was his baby, born in 1941. One day Spencer, who was then helping his father run the four-state activities of their Pittsburg and Midland Coal Co., got a telephone call from the War Department in Washington. Said he later...
...guests had gone and Alf Landon went up to bed. He had told reporters he would have no statement until morning. About midnight, however, Ross Bartley, the Landon publicity man, appeared at the Jayhawk Hotel to hand out copies of the Republican Nominee's telegram of congratulations to Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Already in the Jayhawk they were discussing Alf Landon's chances of getting elected U. S. Senator in 1938, the job his friends really had in mind for him when they began booming him for the Presidency year...
...Topeka all the Landon advisers except Ralph Robey, who lives at the Jayhawk Hotel where the others have their offices, are housed next door to the Executive Mansion. Hard-working and closemouthed, they are not seen much outside home, office or State House. Valiantly doing their bit to dispel the impression that Nominee Landon has copied the Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention...