Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette observed his own golden anniversary as a newsman by saying: "In these 50 years we have seen what seemed a successful system grow slowly and mount steadily to a fair approximation of justice. Then out of God knows where came the change. . . . Where did the money come from? And where the devil has it gone? I am without rudder, anchor or compass. I don't know what is the matter...
Virtually the same condition occurred last week at Quanah, Tex. (110°); Phoenix, Ariz. (116°); Hays, Kans. (117°); Belleville, Kans. (119°); Emporia, Kans. (112°). Over a vast area including Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas the daytime temperature did not fall below 100?...
...Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright...
...Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman J. N. Tincher; 7) Emporia, Kans. to dine with Republican William Allen White; 8) Topeka, Kans. to visit with Republican Governor Alf Landon; 9) Kansas City to meet Arthur Hyde, his old Secretary of Agriculture, and Editor Henry J. Haskell of the Kansas City Star; 10) Des Moines, to dine with Register and Tribune Publisher John...
When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME...