Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Daniel Read Anthony Jr., 60, onetime Congressman from the first Kansas district, after a ten day illness; near Leavenworth, Kan. A nephew of the late fiery Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony, he had served as Representative longer (1907-29) than any other Kansan...
...transportation of natural gas from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The gas is piped and sold to local companies in some 175 Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri communities. Most of these, including the distributors in such important centres as the two Kansas Cities, St. Joseph, Joplin, Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and Wichita, are also owned by Cities Service Gas Co. Governor Woodring contends that the wholesale rate of gas sold to Kansas City Gas Co. is 10¢ too high at the present rate of 40¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that lower commodity prices all around should find reflection...
...prosecuted eight Chicago racketeers on tax evasion charges, has convicted all of them. Among them are Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, who has appealed his three-year sentence; Sam Guzick, another Capone-man, who started serving his year-and-a-day last week; Frank Nitti, Capone treasurer, who is locked in Leavenworth doing 18 months...
...white man's great lines of migration across the continent to the western ocean were three: 1) the Oregon trail to the Northwest; 2) the pioneer route west to the Missouri River and over the Rockies to Great Salt Lake; 3) from Leavenworth southwest by the Santa Fe trail to the southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural...
...Brooklyn when he was sent to the reformatory for burglary. Five times he was hailed into court on charges of homicide only to be freed . by Tammany magistrates. Eight times, too, he beat the law on robbery charges. After the war the U. S. kept him in Leavenworth penitentiary for a year for deserting the army and stealing while in it. Last summer he fled to Europe after a beer murder, was barred out of England, France and Germany as an undesirable alien (TIME, Sept. 8). He was returned to Philadelphia, his birthplace 33 years ago, on a freighter carrying...