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Flags and bunting flew in Topeka, Kan. An enormous portrait of the inmate was hung outside a bedroom window of a modest frame house in a leafy residential street. Citizens made holiday. Indians made whoopee. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio made a speech-and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas became formally aware that he was Number...
...waiting game work well on race tracks, too. Riding as a jockey himself, he had watched two faster horses wear each other out, then whipped his own mount past them at the finish. Good nature and confidence are essentials in playing the waiting game and on his way to Topeka, where his watchful headquarters were to be, Candidate Curtis of Kansas said...
...Kansas, the number of farmers pre paring to motor through their State and across the Kaw River to the convention was estimated by a Topeka observer...
...Ford F. Harvey, who is president of the firm that runs the Santa Fe dining cars and 24 hotels, 41 restaurants, 54 lunchrooms along the Santa Fe route. The original Fred Harvey, now dead, father of Ford F., began business in 1876 in a shed of a depot at Topeka, Kan. His succulent chicken and his eye-easy waitresses quickly made him the Cesar Ritz of the Southwest...
...They are American Telephone and Telegraph Co.; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.; Chase National Bank; General Motors Corp.; National City Bank; New York Central R. R.; Pennsylvania R. R.; Southern Pacific R. R.-' Standard Oil (N. J-); Union Pacific R. R.; U. S. Steel...