Word: cappers
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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...
...Capper Capped...
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...
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...
...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...