Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly appealed but the next day a Federal grand jury in Topeka piled a Pelion of indictments upon the Ossa of his conviction. Indictments were returned against him for using the mails to defraud, for sending raised checks through the mail, for sending false telephone company statements through the mail, for misapplying $146,000 of a national bank's funds. Those indicted on various counts included not only Father Finney. Son Finney, Leland Caldwell (Son Finney's assistant) and Tom Boyd, ex-State Treasurer, but also Carl W. McKeen, president of the National Bank of Topeka...
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TIME apologizes for confusing cat-owning onetime Justice William Redwood Smith with non-cat-owning Justice William Amos Smith. The application by William Redwood Smith for a restraining order to prevent the city of Topeka from enforcing an ordinance limiting the number of cats per citizen to two is on the docket of the Shawnee County District Court, has not yet been acted upon...
What The Fool is to the stage, to an even greater degree a novel called In His Steps has been to literature. Written in 1896 by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon, Congregational minister of Topeka, Kans., In His Steps tells of a preacher who not only tried to live as Christ would have lived in modern times but succeeded in starting a great movement among laymen who pledged themselves to do likewise. Translated in 21 languages, published under 47 different foreign imprints, In His Steps has sold more than 25,000,000 copies, sometimes trailing only the Bible as a bestseller...
...Author Sheldon emulated his book by editing Senator Arthur Capper's Topeka Daily Capital for a week as he believed Jesus would have done. So much in demand were copies that mats were rushed to Chicago, New York and London. Now 66, tall and genial, Author Sheldon has retired from the pulpit, is a doughty warrior for Prohibition, and a contributing editor to the Christian Herald (of which he was editor-in-chief from 1920 to 1925). He has written some 33 books, but his fame still rests upon In His Steps. It might be supposed that his wealth...