Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chill winds whipped across Kansas last week, smearing drought-mulched dust across the sky in dismal yellows. But things were not quite so grim as they looked. In Emporia, Farmer Robert George, 50-year-old bachelor, was teased by his kin for getting married, they said, on "Government rent." Ex-servicemen heading for the state V.F.W. convention joked about the wheat crop they had "already harvested." Some vacation-minded farmers counted their "Florida money." One and all, they were talking about the payments they get from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's soil bank for taking land...
...bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads got broken by the hardwood chairs in Competitor Texas Guinan's ginmills, served 30 days...
Editorialized Editor-Publisher W. L. ("Young Bill") White in the Emporia Gazette: "What Mr. Stauffer has purchased is a dead horse of fantastic proportions, and his bill of sale has bought him largely the right to use his brains and energy to try to revive it. Mr. Stauffer, however, is one of the shrewdest businessmen in Kansas. He has never yet bit off anything without knowing clearly in advance exactly how it should be chewed...
...Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years. Then in 1915 he plunked his savings into the purchase of two struggling weeklies in Peabody, Kans., merging them into the successful Gazette-Herald. But Stauffer's greatest coup in Peabody was to buy land options at the going rate of $1 an acre. When oil was struck, some of the $1 options were worth $500, and by 1924 Stauffer had a kitty of at least $100,000 to buy newspapers in earnest. Primarily a businessman, Publisher Stauffer...
...Promised Land. If anything, Stassen succeeded only in solidifying Republican support behind Dick Nixon. But his action, crackled the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, had come "in time to do the utmost political damage to the party which has tied the feed bag onto Mr. Stassen's big mouth...