Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas last week, farmers from Abilene to Topeka watched and worried as dust storms swirled across the state, silting down the new grass and dimming the sun. Across the U.S., politicians' eyes were watching an entirely different kind of Kansas storm, a political tempest, its gusts reaching all the way to Washington. In its center was Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 49, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start his own public-relations firm in Topeka and Holton. Late last year Kansas Senator Frank Carlson brought him in as director of the national Ike headquarters. After the convention, he became the G.O.P. director of organization, tied together the professional organization and the amateur "citizens" groups. Frank Carlson and former Kansas Senator Harry Darby want Roberts...
...University of Southern California, 34 men solemnly marched into a banquet hall one evening last week for a special commencement ceremony. They were trainmasters, paymasters, auditors and public-relations men. Their ages ranged from 28 to 54. Employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, they had just finished a rugged new six-week course: how to think clearly about the society in which they live...
Without joy, pride or sense of achievement, officials of Topeka (Kans.) State Hospital last week marked the70th anniversary of the admission of their oldest patient. The patient did not even know that she was making medical history of a negative kind, for she has spent the whole of a normal life span in a world apart, out, of all touch with reality. Nothing was done for her in the years, back before 1900, when treatment might have helped; now it is too late...
...this drama of early capitalism's fight with the wild west, Paramount toted a dozen has-beens, a handful of heavies, and an old engine left over from The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe up the Great Divide, hashing the plot together...