Word: salina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stark, fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where he may encounter one ambitious Democrat who can be nominated only over Jim Farley's dead body: Paul Vories McNutt, High Commissioner of the Philippines, who sailed for home last week...
...Swensson's sacred musical was such a success that it went on tour, in lumber wagons along dusty Kansas roads, to the neighboring towns of Salemsburg, Salina and New Gottland. Next year they did it again. The chorus grew, acquired a permanent orchestra and conductor, hired famous soloists like Lillian Nordica, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Olive Fremstad. Lindsborg's annual Messiah became the biggest musical event in Kansas...
CLAUDIUS THE GOD AND HIS WIFE MES-SALINA-Robert Graves-Smith & Haas...
...highly-paid "tax consultants." Impartial observers rate quiet, genial Commissioner Helvering, 57, well above the level of his predecessors. Born in Felicity, Ohio, he got to Congress in 1913 by way of law practice in Kansas, sat for six years as an active tax legislator. He was Mayor of Salina, Kans. for five years, chairman of the Democratic State Committee in the campaigns of 1930 and 1932. Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen got him appointed Internal Revenue Commissioner in 1933 over considerable objection by Republican Senators. Though he compromised last week with one famed income tax evader...
...half-dozen little Kansas towns, just before each sundown last week, a great melancholy voice was heard wailing sad cowboy songs through the ochre twilight. Citizens investigating the cause of this portent, successively at Liberal, Coldwater, Salina, Herington, discovered a strange motorcade called "Ammunition Train No. I." The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first...