Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telling an obscene limerick is not just a man trying to amuse his friends. Such is the conclusion of Dr. Raoul Weston LaBarre of Uniontown, Pa., social anthropologist who has studied the customs of Bolivian Indians, done psychiatric research at the Topeka clinic of Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (The Human Mind, Man Against Himself). Young Dr. LaBarre, observing gatherings of limerick-telling U. S. males, and analyzing the content of the limericks, decided that he was in the presence of otherwise normal people unconsciously betraying their repressions and inhibitions. These categories of limericks indicated to him these inhibitions and repressions...
...fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where he may encounter one ambitious Democrat who can be nominated only over Jim Farley's dead body: Paul Vories McNutt, High Commissioner of the Philippines, who sailed for home last week to start...
...Chicago the president's office of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.-first among U. S. railroads in trackage operated (13,500 miles), fourth in revenue-is a severely handsome, blue-carpeted room overlooking Lake Michigan. It contains two desks, one flat and one rolltop, and last week no one sat at either. But hard at work next door, in the same cubbyhole he has occupied for 29 years, was beaknosed, grey-haired Edward J. (for nothing) Engel...
Died. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, 70, president since 1933 of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; of internal hemorrhage; in Chicago...
...Among the founders: Drs. Lawson Gentry Lowrey, George Salvadore Stevenson and David Mordecai Levy of Manhattan; Dr. William Healy of Boston; Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger of Topeka, Kans...