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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great political friend of Kansas farmers is slim, grey-haired Senator Arthur Capper. This friendship he cultivates through Capper Publications, including the Topeka Daily Capital, third largest newspaper in Kansas (circulation 42.915)*, and Capper's Weekly, mighty farmpaper (circulation 369,120). Last week The Capital celebrated its 50th anniversary with a monster Golden Jubilee edition containing 164 pages, about 250,000 words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scooper Scooped | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Capper Capped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scooper Scooped | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Among the 250,000, the words "Kansas" and "Capper" ever recurred. Besides the customary news features were six special sections praising the State and its Publisher- Senator. Hymned were Kansas business, buildings, sports, nonagenarians, airlife, roads, history, brass bands, debutantes, geology, wild animals. Described were the Capper publishing plant, genealogy, policies, hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scooper Scooped | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Unlike that more ebullient, cosmopolitan journalist, William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, Publisher-Senator Capper confines his interest to Kansas. Last week he editorialized: "I pledge for myself and The Capital at least another half-century's wholehearted devotion to the task of making Topeka a greater and better city; Kansas a more prosperous and happier State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scooper Scooped | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Coolidge isn't writing his own magazine articles except that I know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn't hire a ghost who writes as badly.* I agree with Shuman that you fellows have been chumps on this big name business." ¶ Publisher-Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas (Topeka Daily Capital) pleaded for the maintenance of strong editorial pages. Editorials, he declared, exert a potent influence upon the governmental functions of the nation. ¶ After three days of speechmaking and conferring, and a visit to President and Mrs. Hoover at the White House, the editors trooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A. S. N. E. | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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