Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evidences of Ike's popular support piled up with each mail delivery. New Eisenhower-for-President clubs were putting out their banners all over the country, hastily ordering batches of posters and campaign buttons. Hard-working Ikemen in Washington and Topeka spent hours on the phone straightening out enthusiastic amateurs who happened to have opened rival Ike clubs in the same town. In Los Angeles, the day after Ike's announcement last week, the switchboard of the county registrar's office was temporarily swamped with calls from prospective voters, asking how & when they could register...
Died. Arthur Capper, 86, onetime governor of Kansas (1915-19), longtime Republican U.S. Senator (1919-49), publisher (Capper's Farmer, Household); of pneumonia; in Topeka, Kans. Starting as a typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate...
Cabot Lodge seemed to be taking hold of the Ike movement with a steady hand. There will be a main office in Topeka, he said, with branch offices in Washington, New York, Chicago and in the Northwest. Former Senator Harry Darby of Kansas will be president of the organization. Next month, Lodge and Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff will go to Europe...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 13,074 miles...
...meet," the editorial began. It went on to say that the paper thinks Ike is the man for President on this occasion.* In Emporia, Kans., Editor W. L. White (son of the late William Allen White) put his Gazette on the line for Eisenhower, "an essential Kansas character." In Topeka, a central Eisenhower-for-President office was opened. It is expected to become the national headquarters, to give the campaign that Midwest, home-state flavor. In Washington, the Ikemen were preparing to open an office, announce a national campaign committee and start a fund drive within two weeks...