Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Smith Culburtson and William Allen White are townmates of Emporia, Kansas...
...insult from Editor William Allen White, Republican, of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette to Candidate Hoover which will not soon be forgotten was the following, circulated in public prints last week...
Negaunee, Mich.; Emporia, Kan.; Pal myra, N. Y. ; Houston, Ark.; Commerce, Mo.; Pewee Valley, Ky. ; Waxahachie and Jacksonville, Tex.; Belfast, Me.; Oelwein, Iowa; Virginia Beach, Va., were other places whence the new Carnegie heroes hailed. Besides Hero Smith's silver medal, 23 bronze medals were awarded, ten of them posthumously, for rescue or attempts at rescue from drowning, burning and onrushing trains. Hero Bert V. McMinn of Jacksonville, Tex., extracted his man from a caved-in well...
Professor Harper Woodrow Wilson Memorial Professor of Literature at Princeton, Chairman; R. S. Baker, Amherst, Mass.; Hon. J. W. Davis, New York; W. L. Lippman, the New York World; Miss Marion Park, Bryn Mawr College; Miss Ellen Pendleton, Wellesley College; and W. A. White, Emporia, Kansas...
...declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight. In the interim Mayor Thompson planned to propel his hulking, ruddy figure into national politics by "preaching the doctrines of George Washington, Thomas...