Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirteen of those 15 grave men who have been directing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. to crescent prosperity last week made themselves comfortable in the directors' room of the company's Manhattan suite and, having digested the predigested reports of the road's efficacy during the past year, made a decision which they knew would be pleasing to their stockholders who are to meet at Topeka, Kan., the last Thursday of this month...
Last week President William Benson Storey of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co., Chairman of the Committee on Uniform Express Contracts of American Railway Executives, announced flatly: "We are going to consider within the next week at a meeting in New York whether to go further with the plan or not." The "plan" is for the railroads to assume the $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annual business of the American Railway Express Company. Later, President Storey declared, rather to the surprise of railroad executives generally, that he had the approval of railroads carrying...
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway
...mother died when he was three years old, and he went to his mother's people on the New Reservation, sixty miles west of Topeka. At the age of nine he turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
Curtis does not make policies; he unveils them. It is his business to sound out the opposition, plan a campaign, arrange a compromise if one is necessary, and muster the votes when the skies are stormy. As long ago as 1899 one can find him praised by the Topeka Mail and Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm...