Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is happening to the old-fashioned U.S. bookstore? Answer: it is dying, and only a thinning line of browsers show so much as a damp eye. Last year saw the passing of some of the nation's oldest shops. Among them: one in Emporia, Kans., aged 59; another in Hanover, N.H., aged 27; another in Brookline, Mass., aged 29. Of the 1,000-odd members in the American Booksellers Association, says its executive secretary, Joseph Duffy, less than half "are worth a book salesman's call." Department stores, book clubs, newsstands, drugstores and supermarkets are forcing...
Among nervous city officials at election time memories are short and faces long. The political play is to the grandstand and every gimmick scores points. This explains the sudden crackdown on Boston's emporia of hotcyed culture, the Old Howard and Casino burlesque (or burlesk, in the Casino's cas) house...
...Emporia, Kansas has long been famous as the home of the late William Allen White, ardent Bull Mooser, editor of the Emporia Gazette, and crusader for the rights of free speech. It is now rapidly becoming notorious as the locale of Emporia State Teachers College, whose acting President has recently enunciated the doctrine that a college teacher has no right to engage in political activity...
...acting President, John E. Jacobs, made the statement in connection with the case of W. Lou Tandy, a temporary member of the Emporia faculty who was relieved of his teaching duties after signing the petition for amnesty for the eleven Communist leaders convicted under the Smith act last year. By the grace of the Kansas Board of Regents, Tandy continues on the college's payroll until June, but he cannot teach and will not, of course, be rehired...
Tandy's big mistake was to identify himself as a member of the Emporia staff when signing the petition. Somehow this got into the papers. This was a legislative year in Kansas, the year in which a state-supported college cannot afford to incur the displeasure of the legislators. When he heard of the petition, the Secretary of the State Board of Regents told Tandy he should resign in twenty-four hours or else be fired. Tandy held firm. The Emporia faculty, under Jacobs' urging, voted to support "any action the administration of the college might take against Tandy"--even...