Word: topeka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stimulate, by every governmental activity, the progress of the cooperative marketing movement. . . . "To secure for the farmer credits suitable for his needs. "This .is our platform." He boarded his train once more and went on, while the metaphorical announcer called: "All aboard for Denver, Cheyenne, Topeka, Bunceton, Des Moines and Chicago!" Meanwhile, in the East, the rather ineffectual Clem L. Shaver sputtered that he expected LaFollette to get about 70 electoral votes in the West. Some Democratic campaigners set the number even higher. They admit it cheerfully. "This," they say, "means that LaFollette is weakening Coolidge. LaFollette having the West...
...interested in rare volumes and ancient editions. If the books were to be eased in glass and had to be viewed from a respectful distance they would excite no more curiosity than the far famed glass flowers that is, among the undergraduates. People do come from Carson City and Topeka and all sorts of places for a glimpse of these renowned bits of vegetation, but what student has ever seen them unless, perhaps, he lost his way in the Museum and came upon them unawares" As a matter of fact, once one has gazed upon their perfection, there is little...
...former Governor Henry J. Allen, received a severe blow when the U. S. Supreme Court reversed one of its findings. The Constitutionality of the Kansas law was not directly ruled upon. The ease was one in which the Industrial Court had ruled that Charles Wolff Packing Co., of Topeka, must increase the wages of its employees, although the company was not then operating at a profit...
Sachs Research Fellowship in fine arts to Donald M. Oenslager '23, of Harrisburg, Pa., who has designed the scenery for recent productions of the Harvard Dramatic Club; John Knowles Paine Fellowships in music to Elmer L. Olsson 1G., of Topeka, Kan., who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1921, and to Arthur H. Starbird '23, of Somerville; Bayard Cutting Fellowship to Charles H. Taylor 2G., of Maplewood, N. J., Austin Teaching Fellow at Harvard, whose subject is government and history: Pratt Fellowship in fine arts to Joseph S. Jabionski '23, and 1G., of Rochester, N. Y., and Rogers Fellowships...
Died. Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, 76, U. S. N., retired, at Farmington, Conn., where he was born. He served in the navy for 45 years prior to his retirement in 1908, commanded the gunboat, Topeka in the Spanish American War, was naval aide to McKinley, was in command of the Missouri when it had a collision with the Illinois and when thirty-three men were killed in an explosion (he was cleared of responsibility in both cases) and was an official representative at the coronation of George V. He was divorced from his first wife in 1880 and fifteen...