Word: kans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homer Hoch, born on the Fourth of July in Marion, Kan., is a slim, sharp, dark firecracker under the oldtimers of the House. Not yet 50, he switched about in a variety of Government jobs, kept up his law practice, edited a country paper. He entered Congress in 1919. He stands high as a transportation expert and is rapidly learning the technique of the Steering Committee...
Swallow Airplane Co. Wichita, Kan. / Commercial / Light sport, commercial & training / . . . . . . . .$1,795-$9,000 / First commercial airplane makers...
...only of the 18 accomplished a "clean performance." This was Major Harry D. Chamberlain who is the son of an Army man; an instructor in the Fort Riley, Kan., military school; about 35; nervous when he is not sitting on a horse. On Dick Waring he took every fence, the little one at the start and the long jump near the the end, without knocking down or touching...
Charles Curtis voted in Topeka, Kan. Then he went and stood at the grave of his wife. She had died four years too soon. He learned of the landslide on awaking aboard a train near Chicago. From President Coolidge he received a quirky little message: "... I regret that the country will not also have your distinguished services as a Senator...
...Tammany Hall. His name on the list brought mingled memories: of Tammany iniquities; of the family fight for Boss Croker's $5,000,000 estate; of a Croker son who killed himself racing automobiles; of another son who died from smoking opium, on a train, near Emporia, Kan.; of a Croker daughter who married an Italian count and another who married a riding master; of Boss Croker's second wife, a Cherokee princess; of the Croker race horses, bulldogs and Irish estate. Boss Croker set Richard Croker Jr. up in business with $150,000 and gave his other...