Word: neodesha
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Corn, Cashier, Governor Sirs: Your issue of Dec. 1 carries a TIMEworthy account of the recent election-accurate and to the point. Except perversely enough your illustration was the likeness of Frank ("Chief") Haucke and not that of Governor-elect Woodring. Also Elk City, Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring's choosing that vocation [banking] at an early age. His present home is Neodesha. L. E. SMITH...
...American Legion. Republican Haucke made known that he did not smoke, drink, chew or go to dances. Democrat Woodring made known that he was an expert crocheter. Political enemies even went so far as to claim he once won a county crocheting prize. His history: born in Neodesha, Kan., into a family of several sisters, served in the War, became a Neodesha bank cashier, resigned to run for the governorship...
...November Republican Nominee Haucke will oppose Democrat Nominee Harry H. Woodring of Neodesha, also a onetime State Legion commander. Pleasing to the Hoover Administration were the renomination of Senator Allen and the defeat of Governor Reed. Though Nominee Haucke in his campaign did not take serious issue with Governor Reed's criticism of the Farm Board's wheat acreage reduction program, the result of the primary was interpreted as an endorsement of the Administration's farm relief policies. Senator Allen, though nominated, lost political power when Governor Reed was beaten because David Winfield Mulvane, potent Old Guard...