Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devotees include a number of cinema people, notably Wallace Beery and Rod La Rocque, Vincent Astor is another. The finest model systems in the U. S. are credited to Minton Cronkhite of San Marino, Calif., who rides in the cabs of real locomotives whenever he can. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. frequently borrows Mr. Cronkhite's equipment for its displays at fairs. The national association got under way three years ago, pushed by groups of Detroit modelers who believed that such an organization would impel manufacturers to a helpful standardization of parts. This turned...
...Last week the Denver city council voted to install them and Baltimore was considering it. Many cities are enthusiastic about their meters. Dallas, for example, gets about $140,000 yearly from her 1,500, considers they have "solved our parking problems." But not all cities are so satisfied. Topeka. Mobile, Salt Lake City and six other cities installed, then removed meters. Last week City Manager H. F. McElroy of Kansas City, Mo., which has 1,400 meters, snapped: "The meters solve none of the parking problems." In Alabama, where 500 meters were installed in Birmingham last September, motorists took...
Since 1912 Arizona has had a law prohibiting freight trains of more than 70 cars from passing through the State. Thus the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, as their long strings of refrigerator cars approached the Arizona border, had to split them up to cross the State. In 1929 the two roads estimated that the law was costing them $1,000,000 per year, started court action to have its enforcement restrained. In due time a U. S. District Court gave ear to their plea, finding the law useless except as a "make-work" measure and interfering...
Sued. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, 45, Republican National Chairman: by Mrs. Laura Hall Hamilton; for separate maintenance for herself, Son Daniel, 20 (a University of Kansas freshman) and Daughter Laura, 12; in Topeka. Kans. Grounds: "gross neglect of duty, abandonment and extreme cruelty...
...brother had them covered. Power and Suhay surrendered without a shot, were disarmed and handcuffed. A few hours later, Federal Agents had them in jail in Omaha. Some $12,000 in cash was recovered. Agent Baker's first case was successfully concluded. He died in a Topeka hospital...