Word: cappers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Globe, Ed Howe responded to a speech of felicitation by Senator Arthur Capper: "When we're criticized we always have an excuse. Mine is that I'm an editor. Editors are hated more than any other men on earth...
...Author Sheldon emulated his book by editing Senator Arthur Capper's Topeka Daily Capital for a week as he believed Jesus would have done. So much in demand were copies that mats were rushed to Chicago, New York and London. Now 66, tall and genial, Author Sheldon has retired from the pulpit, is a doughty warrior for Prohibition, and a contributing editor to the Christian Herald (of which he was editor-in-chief from 1920 to 1925). He has written some 33 books, but his fame still rests upon In His Steps. It might be supposed that his wealth...
...Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was hotly opposed by Republicans on the ground that as an ex-Congressman he had wangled many a tax case out of the Treasury. Michigan's Couzens denounced him as a man of "shifty eyes and shifty methods." Kansas' Senator Capper declared that, though always opposed to him politically, he thought Appointee Helver-ing was an honest man. ¶ Passed the Independent Offices Appropriation bill, after adopting (43-10-42) an amendment limiting pension cuts by the President to 25%; sent it to conference...
...enjoyed by the medical and legal professions. It provides that the newsman need not make known to any county grand jury, legislative committee or other investigating body the source of information obtained by him and published in his paper. A similar law exists in Maryland. In 1929 Senator Arthur Capper proposed a like measure to Congress, after three Hearst reporters went to jail for refusing to tell a grand jury the addresses of speakeasies described in a Washington Times survey. No Federal law materialized...
Senator Robinson's other argument to leave liquor control exclusively to the States started a swirling debate around the ghost of the saloon. His deep chest heaving, Senator Robinson summed up after Senators Borah, Glass, Steiwer and Capper had been heard...