Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad into New Mexico and served on its early board of directors. Last week his 75-year-old son, onetime (1897-1906) Governor of New Mexico, gave further proof of Otero vitality when he offered, in the first volume of his reminiscences, a book that is often...
...live, like his father, to be over 80 but since the beginning of 1935 his speeches indicate that he would rather live in the White House than become an octogenarian. "I should be in my own eyes intellectually dishonest, if I failed to warn you! . . ." he cried recently in Topeka. "All the evil forces of corruption which are attracted by the prospect of political spoils have left the Republican fold and attached themselves to the opposition. Let them go! As a party we have been deloused. . . . Get America back on the payroll." A middle-of-the-roader, with geography...
Currently serving on an independent protective committee in connection with bankrupt Missouri Pacific (mileage: 12.183), Mr. Beard blames the bankers as the carriers' real managers. But bankers or no, financial ineptness is almost a railroad tradition. With a few notable exceptions like Burlington, Union Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western, U. S. railroads have habitually increased their fixed charges when they should have reduced them; they have sold bonds when more prudent corporations were selling stock; they have paid dividends when they should have been paying off debts; they have sunk millions in improvements that...
...date, and another 1,000 will be finished by the end of 1935. The company has developed its own air-conditioning machinery but a few railroads prefer to install other types. The 141 Pullmans used in Baltimore & Ohio's crack trains are all fitted with York machinery. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has 30 Pullmans equipped by Carrier Corp. However, Pullman has outfitted about one-half of the 1,400 air-conditioned diners, club and lounge cars owned by the railroads. Such special work accounted for no small part of the profits announced last week...
...seventh plea for reinstatement of Heretic William Montgomery Brown, ousted bishop (TIME, Oct. 8), a committee did so by, advising the Bishops to reject it. The Bishops concurred. ¶ A Young People's Conference tingled to a Leftish speech by Very Rev. John W. Day, dean of the Topeka, Kans. Cathedral, who flayed NRA as capitalistic, exhorted his hearers not to bear arms and urged wartime conscription of wealth. Even more tingling were the words of another Day, Rev. Gardiner M., student pastor at Williams College. Telling the Church League for Industrial Democracy about his summer in Soviet Russia...