Word: kans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, Federal detectives picked up three players, identified two of them, Thomas Holden and Francis L. Keating, as mail-train robbers who escaped from Leavenworth two years ago; a third, John Brown, as one of the men who held up the Citizens' National Bank at Fort Scott, Kan. last month. Their wives, idly watching the game from a parked car, had guns in their handbags...
Capt. Walter Newhall Vernou, U. S. N.. new White House aide, is the son of Capt. Charles A. Vernou, 19th Infantry, U. S. A. He was born at Fort Larnard, Kan. Feb. 10, 1878, appointed to the Naval Academy from Michigan in 1897.-ED. Original Ricks Sirs...
...Atlantic Seaboard. With the addition. Commander-Larabee has 14 flour mills with a 40,000-bbl. capacity and storage space for 30,000,000 bu. Commander-Larabee plans to double the Sherman mill's storage capacity and is building a 1,000,000-bu. terminal at Wellington, Kan. It also plans a new 2,500-bu. flour mill at either Sherman or Fort Worth. Largest company in the U. S. is General Mills with an 81,850-bbl. daily capacity; second is Pillsbury Flour with...
Commander-Larabee was formed in 1926 by a merger of the Larabee mills of Kansas with the Commander group in Minneapolis. The Larabee mills were started by Fred and Frank Larabee in their home town of Hutchinson, Kan. The Commander mills were originated by Banker Benjamin Belcher Sheffield, now head of Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, W. H. Sudduth, a farmer, and W. D. Gregory. Messrs. Sheffield & Sudduth sold out to a group which included Shreve McLaren Archer, 40, head of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the biggest linseed crushing companies in the World. In 1930 his company bought control...
When a speaker made an unbearably fatuous remark, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette muttered "spinach." Little Publisher Roy Howard and his bearded partner Robert Scripps muttered nothing but laughed a great deal. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick rarely got to the Convention, busied himself writing scary front-page editorials for his Chicago Tribune. One, titled "Half Bolshevik; Half Free," concluded with: "Unless we have, in Lincoln's phrase, a new birth of freedom, the death of our civilization is near at hand...