Word: schoeppel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungry Topeka Rotarians wondered what had happened to the speaker of the evening. The speaker, Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel, was stalled between floors in an elevator. After 20 stalled minutes he boosted his fellow passengers out through an opening between the elevator ceiling and the shaft door, human...
Kansas. Small-town Lawyer Andrew Schoeppel, who played end on the 1922 Nebraska University team that beat Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, was nominated by the Republicans for Governor. Third in the race was tempestuous Senator Clyde Reed, who had gone back home, hopping mad over the closed shop and union initiation fees at Kansas war plants, to run on a one-plank platform: "fair" labor legislation. (He incidentally wanted to take State party control from the old Alf Landon machine.) Soothed the Kansas City Star: "Kansas voters [merely] sent him back to Washington, where many believed his issue...