Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came comment from William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe which shares the Tehachapi Pass with S. P., must shoulder its portion of the reconstruction costs...
...President Hoover picked Des Moines and Oct. 4 to make his first campaign speech. Nominally an answer to Nominee Roosevelt's Topeka speech, the Hoover address was expected to avoid new relief prescriptions, laud the recovery program already initiated. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, planned a protest parade by 20, 000 of his followers. Republican leaders assured President Hoover the Reno demonstration would not prove hostile...
...Topeka. The Governor's Topeka speech drew a crowd estimated at twice the size of the one that turned out last month to hear Charles Curtis accept the Vice-Presidential nomination in his hometown. Speaker Garner joined his teammate at the State Capitol. Said he: "I've come here to show you that I wear neither horns nor hoofs though I come from Texas...
Onions & Demagogs. Republicans quickly hopped on the Topeka speech because Governor Roosevelt had offered no specific plan of relief. He was charged with being deliberately vague and misleading. Representative Snell pointed to the fact that Democrats from Speaker Garner down had pressed the Farm Board to undertake stabilization operations. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde observed: "My admiration for Al Smith rises higher with each new Roosevelt speech. Al not only knows his onions but his demagogs as well...
...have not commented upon Governor Roosevelt's plan," declared Vice President Curtis, referring to the Democratic nominee's Topeka farm speech (see above), ''because he has submitted none. He refers to several plans that have been discussed for years and then leaves them for further discussion...