Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last fortnight in Topeka, Kans., a lamb-faced, inoffensive oilman was called to the telephone, invited to lunch at the White House with the President. Alfred Mossman Landon, titular chief of the Republican Party, came away worried. He had just issued a statement praising the President's defense speech. Through the U. S. press blew high, windy talk of national unity. It was known that Mr. Roosevelt had offered Republican Frank Knox-for the second time-the Secretaryship of the Navy. It was reported that the Labor portfolio had been offered to New York City's baggy...
...veteran political reporters, Jim Hagerty of the New York Times and Edwin S. ("Ned") McIntosh of the New York Herald Tribune, thought they had found the dark horse of the Republican Convention in short, swart Joseph William Martin Jr., able minority leader of the House of Representatives. From Topeka, Kans., where Nominee Alf Landon performed the same function in 1936, Joe Martin keynoted at the famed Republican Kansas Day rally. Messrs. Hagerty & McIntosh reported that Republican leaders from all over the country were much impressed by popular, modest Mr. Martin, who offered as a platform the same twelve-point, help...
...miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled redball freights from Chicago to Texas in 24 hours, Chicago to Kansas City overnight...
...ground as always, Kansas' cadaverous Senator Arthur Capper invited a farmers' meeting at Topeka to tell him what was wrong with the world. Up popped Constituent A. F. McHenry: "The trouble with our Senators and Representatives is we farmers aren't getting anything from them but hot air and oratory. Two fellows down at Baker University won an oratorical contest and now they're in an asylum. I think some of our Senators and Representatives should be there with them...