Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific arrived from Omaha in an ordinary Pullman on a pass. So did Lawrence A. Downs of Illinois Central who lives in Chicago. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Leonor Fresnel Loree of Delaware & Hudson, Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central all left their luxurious "office" cars behind to save money, make a good impression. In the gold and amber club rooms of the Hotel Traymore they, and 61 other railroad presidents and chairmen, sat down behind closed doors to discuss ways & means of extracting more money...
Nearly every day last week the directors of some large corporation made news by voting to increase dividends or to join the ranks of dividend payers for the first time in years. Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway led off with a declaration of $2 on its common stock payable Sept. 1, the first dividend since June 1932. Southwest grain shipments had lifted Santa Fe's freight traffic to the highest point in 20 months. Earnings for the year ended June 30 would approximate $1 per share, said Chairman Samuel Thomas Bledsoe. and the rest of the dividend would...
...Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman J. N. Tincher; 7) Emporia, Kans. to dine with Republican William Allen White; 8) Topeka, Kans. to visit with Republican Governor Alf Landon; 9) Kansas City to meet Arthur Hyde, his old Secretary of Agriculture, and Editor Henry J. Haskell of the Kansas City Star; 10) Des Moines, to dine with Register and Tribune Publisher John Cowles; 11 Cedar Rapids, to see Republican Committeeman Harrison Spenglar...
...Close behind are Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home and Wilmer Atkinson Co.'s Farm Journal, with 1,500,000 apiece. Successful Farming, published by Meredith Publishing Co. in Des Moines with special attention to stock raising, has 1,150,000 readers. Capper's Farmer (Topeka) and American Farming (Chicago) have just under 1,000,000 as has Webb Publishing Co.'s Farmer's Wife which contains recipes for apple dumplings as well as hog wash. Biggest of the regional magazines are the monthlies-Progressive Farmer and Southern Ruralist published in Birmingham, Ala. with five...
Born. To Alfred Mossman Landon, 45, Governor of Kansas, and Theo Cobb Landon : a son, their second child; in Topeka. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: John Cobb Landon. Governor Landon has a 17-year-old daughter by his first wife, who died...