Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Topeka, Kansas' Electoral College cast nine printed slips into a yellow cardboard box for Roosevelt & Garner. Present was Democratic Governor-Elect Walter Huxman, not present was Alf Landon who had certified the results in advance. Said Kansas' Republican Secretary of State Frank J. Ryan (reelected in November on a platform of "I want the job: it pays well") as the electors filed out: "God be with you till we meet again, but I hope it will not be under the same circumstances...
...equipment in a big way for the first time in years. In the three months through November the railroads ordered 680,000 tons of rails and fastenings. In the same period of 1934 the total was a measly 36,000 tons. Orders continued to pour in last week, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe alone requiring 155,000 tons of rails and fastenings worth $6,135,000, biggest single rail order since...
...these, only Major County, up on the Cimarron River near the Kansas border, failed this autumn to vote the Democratic ticket for President and Senator. Last week at Major's county seat of Fairview, which lies on the main line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Gerald Vincent Underwood, publisher, and Cass Alonzo Carr, editor of the Fairview Republican, took matters into their own hands. Announced they in their paper...
...still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study in Topeka, Kansas." Three hours later the Sunflower Special chuffed out of Topeka on its last trip, taking the Republican Nominee back to his home town of Independence to vote. Some 5,000 of his neighbors were down at the Santa Fe station at 8 a. m. to cheer him, give...
Late in the afternoon Nominee Landon returned to Topeka for a quiet dinner with his family and a few close friends. Other friends began dropping in at the big, yellow and white Executive Mansion. The radio was on full blast. Out in the garage, press tickers clattered busily. The gloom which had hung over the Landon campaign train in all its travels about the country began to settle over the Landon parlor as the radio announcers kept shouting monotonously: "Roosevelt ahead in New York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead...