Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to the mental health society in Dallas, Topeka's famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger deplored the tendency of most Americans to lose sight of the mind in their zeal over certain bodies. "Almost every female in her late teens and 20s knows the chest and waist and hip measurements of Miss America," cried he. "In mental health, unfortunately, we do not have such a widely understood set of goals...
...Kansas' First District (Topeka). Democrat Howard Miller slipped into the seat in 1952 because of local opposition to a Republican-favored dam (his 1952 campaign slogan: "Let's stop dam foolishness"). With the dam issue quieted down, G.O.P. Nominee William H. Avery, a Wakefield farmer, is expected to recapture the traditionally Republican district...
Kansas, where nine cities have segregation under a local option law, is ready to comply with the Supreme Court. The segregated cities, such as Topeka. plan to integrate their schools over a two-year period...
Kansas politics is divided into three parts: the "ins," the "outs," and the Democrats. In last week's primary election, Kansas voters handed Republican "outs" a surprise victory over the Republican faction which has held power in the Statehouse at Topeka for 16 years...
Last January they counterattacked. In a swift and skillful political coup, while Craig was keeping a speaking engagement in Topeka, Kans.. they ousted Noland Wright, pro-Craig chairman of the Republican state committee, and installed 32-year-old Paul Cyr, an O.S.S. veteran of World War II, handpicked by Jenner and Capehart...