Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legionaries: He participated in a home-coming celebration for Topeka's Harry W. Colmery, new National Commander of the American Legion (TIME, Oct. 5), congratulated him on his leadership of "this great patriotic organization...
...Topeka gave Alf Landon a send-off for the first time when he set out last week on his fourth & penultimate campaign tour. Arriving at the railroad station one rainy evening, he found the local branch of the Landon Business Women's League lustily singing We're from Sunny Kansas...
...rose the State Committee's Executive Director John G. Stutz, a Democrat appointed by Governor Landon's Democratic predecessor, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring. Last week the original subject of dispute was overshadowed when Director Stutz complained, in a statement released through Landon campaign headquarters in Topeka, that he had been refused information concerning WPA's administrative costs. His requests for access to the records, said he, had been denied by the State WPAdministrator, ignored by Federal WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Indignantly Director Stutz pointed to an order of last June in which Administrator Hopkins had enjoined...
Back cracked Nominee Landon in Topeka: "This Administration seems to be finding a lot of red herrings. It's too bad we can't eat them. ... As I said to Kansas newspapermen some time ago, we are not only having censorship of news but censorship of the sources of news under this Administration. . . . The New Deal is resisting every attempt to get the facts about the WPA. . . . As I have said before, they are afraid that publicity would reveal waste and extravagance...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa...