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William Randolph Hearst kept on naming his newspapers the American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
...steward, light refreshments, room for hand baggage, a luxuriously furnished cabin with ample observation windows. Flying on a schedule calling for 90 m. p. h., occasionally sprinting at 120 m. p. h., the planes will reach St. Louis in time for luncheon, pause in Kansas City, arrive at Wichita, Kan., at 6 p. m. The passengers will then get on a Santa Fe train for a famed Fred Harvey dinner and a good night's sleep. Next morning, somewhere in New Mexico (the city has not yet been chosen), the travelers will again take plane...
...appointing a mediation board, President Coolidge averted a trainmen's strike on the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient R. R. at Wichita...
...Kansas Democrats, supposedly friendly to Candidate Reed, unexpectedly instructed their 20 delegates for U. S. Representative William A^ Ayres of Wichita. Though Candidate Reed remained Kansas' second fiddle, Smith men interpreted the naming of Candidate Ayres as a move to let Kansas clamber gracefully aboard the Smith bandwagon...
...digestion. This was the expression which through a warm afternoon last week in St. Petersburg, Fla., appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly...