Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handful of important Republicans went to Topeka last week to tell Charles Curtis that he had been renominated for the Vice-Presidency. They did not refer to the fact that about 35% of the delegates at the Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of Senator Arthur Capper's luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter...
Kansas. To get Vice President Curtis from Los Angeles to his Topeka home in time to vote, a fast Santa Fe train was rerouted through Kansas. Even so the Vice President had to get off at Dodge City and use an absentee ballot...
...Wall Street last week was being circulated, as a joke, a table of figures which made investors wince. It told of a Rip van Winkle who in August 1929 sold ten shares of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at $298!, putting the $2,986.25 in a savings bank. Recently he bought back his ten Atchison for $350. With the additional money he bought ten shares in each of 85 well-known companies, such as Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Wabash, Anaconda Copper, Baldwin Locomotive, United Cigar, Kreuger & Toll, Curtiss-Wright, Republic Steel. He still had left $8.75 to buy a haircut, a shave...
Fisherman Eric Hudson Topeka (Kans.) High School...
Political speechmaking is a new avocation for Mrs. Gann. Topeka, Omaha and Chicago have heard her. Women turn out to see "the girl who put Alice Longworth in her place." In substance her addresses wave the U. S. flag, laud President Hoover, belittle the Depression and exude good Republican cheer. She returns to Washington to encourage national headquarters with reports that women everywhere are enthusiastic about a Hoover-Curtis ticket this year...