Word: kans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jerome A. Colvin, 59, horse & mule dealer, brother-in-law of Vice President Charles Curtis; of indigestion; in Topeka, Kan...
...proper way of performing. Outside a theatre in Nacogdoches, Tex. where they were playing, a mule ran away and smashed a store. The audience deserted the Marx Brothers to watch the mule. When the audience returned, the Marxes, indignant, burlesqued their act. The audience was delighted. At Abilene, Kan., a manager cancelled their bookings. Put off a train which they had boarded without money, they walked to the next town. Harpo borrowed his first red wig. The Marx Brothers again burlesqued their act. By the time they reached Oklahoma City they were rich enough to stay at a hotel...
When War came in 1917 William Hushka, 22-year-old Lithuanian, sold his St. Louis butcher shop, gave the proceeds to his wife, joined the Army. He was sent to Camp Funston, Kan. where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital...
...Kansas City, to Congressmen investigating Government interference in private business, Mrs. Ida Watkins, weather-beaten "Wheat Queen" of Sublette, Kan., pulled off her hat. bared a brawny, toil-hardened arm. shouted: "I just want to kick the devil out of the Farm Board. ... I draw the line on the doggone, damnable Government interference with our affairs...
Lawrence, Kan...