Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Middle Schoolman. Between the old school of Hill and Harriman and the new school of the Van Sweringens, railroading had its middle school of able, hardheaded, now somewhat old-fashioned gentlemen. Last week when William Benson Storey, 75, resigned his job as president of Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe. one of the biggest members of the Middle School retired from railroading. Born in San Francisco eight years after the gold rush, initiated in transportation by loading gold on a stage coach of which his father was freight agent. Mr. Storey-six feet tall, broad-shouldered, mustached and amply goateed...
...suite at the Senate Office Building he answered an average of 200 letters per day and began picking out the things he would take back to Topeka with him after March 4. The 6-ft. chair engraved "The Chief" would certainly go. So would the 2-ft. ebony elephant rampant and the framed collection of original newspaper cartoons (mostly friendly). Nor would he part with the composite photograph of the Senate in 1895 (that was his first term in the House) or the original Lincoln picture. Most of the books and the vice-presidential flag would probably have...
...When in Topeka the Vice President makes his home with his other sister, Mrs. Jerome A. Colvin, widow of a horse & mule dealer...
Died. David Winfield Mulvane, 69. Kansas Republican political boss; of a cerebral hemorrhage: in Topeka; after working late on election returns...
Charles Curtis marched down the street in Topeka, Kan. with his unpublicized sister, Mrs. Jerome Calvin. He was offered an automobile ride but declined it. To the polling place he marched and waited his turn to vote for himself and Herbert Hoover. That night, listening to returns before entraining for Washington, he learned that 50,000 too few Kansans had done likewise for him to save even Kansas' 9 electoral votes for his party. Said he: "This is the first popular election I have ever lost...