Word: kans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wichita, Kan., 102-year-old Mrs. Lucy Hatch pleaded with county commissioners that she might enter the poor farm, find refuge from the "mischievous ways" of her 70-year-old son, Harry. She told officials that he spent her money in "bacchanalian festivals and midnight parties...
...were heard last week. But there was no final answer to the question: What caused the Transcontinental & Western Air plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect...
...farmers, advertisements in the rural Press, harangues over the radio. Last week James Clifton Stone, new chairman of the Federal Farm Board, made his first excursion to the midWest to continue the "Legge shows," shout again the gospel of crop reduction. He addressed wheat co-operatives in Hutchinson, Kan. and Enid, Okla. As best he could he reiterated Mr. Legge's arguments, used the same threats, the same prayers...
Died. Rev. Dr. Ozora S. Davis, 64, president emeritus of Chicago Theological Seminary, from 1908 to 1928 its president; of diabetes; on a train near Topeka, Kan., while en route from Los Angeles to Chi-cago...
...Wichita, Kan., Don Preston appeared in court, arraigned for the second time on a liquor charge. Penniless, he had hitchhiked over 1,100 miles from San Diesro, Calif...