Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Allen White, editor of Emporia (Kansas) Gazette Litt.D...
When a speaker made an unbearably fatuous remark, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette muttered "spinach." Little Publisher Roy Howard and his bearded partner Robert Scripps muttered nothing but laughed a great deal. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick rarely got to the Convention, busied himself writing scary front-page editorials for his Chicago Tribune. One, titled "Half Bolshevik; Half Free," concluded with: "Unless we have, in Lincoln's phrase, a new birth of freedom, the death of our civilization is near at hand...
...programs called festivals. Europe crowds hers into the summer months when tourists are passing her way. The U. S. has hers in the spring, after important artists finish their opera and concert engagements, before the citizenry starts vacationing. Festivals have been given already this spring in Washington, D. C., Emporia, Kans., Harrisburg, Pa., Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Hamilton, Ontario, and Halifax. May festivals are scheduled for Bethlehem, Pa., Ann Arbor, Evanston, Rochester, N. Y., Keene, N. H., White Plains, N. Y. This spring, looming above these is the 29th biennial Festival given last week in Cincinnati...
Married. William Lindsay White, son of Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, associate editor of the Gazette, member of the lower house of the Kansas Legislature; and Kathrine Klinkenberg, of Ottawa, Kans., resigning member of TIME editorial department; in Manhattan. Their honeymoon: to Kansas by boat...
...heavy fog hung over Kansas fields near Emporia one morning last week as Edward Baker, farm boy of Bazaar, set forth to feed his cattle. Along about ten o'clock he heard an explosion, then a crash. Soon afterward, in a nearby pasture, Edward Baker came upon the flaming carcass of a ten passenger Fokker of the Transcontinental & Western Air line. Its eight occupants lay dead or dying...