Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Citizens of all political complexions turned out for a down-with-H-bombs rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, but the oddest pair seemed to be Topeka's Old Republican Alfred Mossman London and the widow of the man who overwhelmed him in the 1936 presidential election, Old Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt. Landon, 72, and Mrs. Roosevelt, 75, obviously struck responsive chords with each other in their mutual endorsement of a "sane nuclear policy." Neither of them, however, joined a ban-the-bomb march after the rally. That was left to more militant demonstrators, such as Old Socialist...
Windfall? In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings...
...onetime (1928) Kansas commander of the American Legion who went on (1931-33) to be the state's Democratic Governor and later (1936-40) U.S. Secretary of War; by Helen Coolidge Woodring, 53, daughter of onetime Massachusetts Senator Marcus Coolidge; after 27 years of marriage, three children; in Topeka, Kans...