Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foundation's former President George E. Vincent, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr, University of Chicago's Vice President William Benton and Professor Thomas V. Smith, Wharton School of Finance's Dean Joseph H. Willits, TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce, Emporia Gazette's Editor William Allen White, Fordham's President Robert I. Gannon, former U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde, New York University's Chancellor Harry W. Chase...
...battle of all nations as the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Battalion and other foreign battalions moved into the Leftist lines. New Year's Eve saw Spaniards, Italians, U. S. citizens, Moors, Germans, Czechs and Frenchmen all fighting for a town on a river bank about the size of Emporia, Kans...
...been honored, but in reading the lists one cannot help feeling that the awards were extravagantly made and that a distressing number of the recipients were men of mediocre talents. Thomas Mann and Einstein honored Harvard by their very presence here, but it seems that the editor of the Emporia Gazette and the chronicler of Harvard history have yet to reach their full stature...
...none worth getting really sore about. They need a scolding now & then, but what they need oftenest is a pat on the back, maybe some kidding. In his warm but unmaudlin obituaries, Editor White shows the full measure of their place in his half-Irish heart. Even outside Emporia, where all the worst sinners live, he can always find some good word to say for the dead. Only once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom he could not be generous. That was Publisher Frank Munsey, whose obituary stated briefly that he had "contributed...
...editors." (Editor White figured that out before the election revelations of 1936.) And an editor with no inconsistencies is either a stuffed-shirt or a liar. In current footnotes he points out some of his own. He thinks he used to be too noisy boosting the wonders of Emporia and Kansas. He is "ashamed" that he called Bryan "a shallow fellow," and Socialist Eugene V. Debs "a charlatan," blushes over his flag-waving editorials during the Spanish-American and World Wars, would take back if he could an editorial upholding the guilt of Sacco & Vanzetti, "whose execution was a crime...