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...years as editor-owner of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette he had been more widely quoted, perhaps, than any other U.S. editor. Balloon-pricker, dauber of stuffed shirts, kindly philosopher, booster of the good, of Kansas, of Kansans, and of the Republican Party, Will White had been a solid force in the U.S. on the side of good will...
...birds had come; they flopped their ungainly wings, carrying new twigs to the slovenly nests where they have lived for generations. In river-bottom gumbo fields, farm boys trotted behind the plows, picking up angle worms from the fresh furrows. Old William Allen White waxed poetic in his Emporia Gazette over the first yellow crocuses on the Y.W.C.A. lawn. Emporia farmers noted with satisfaction that the first pig litters averaged three more than last year...
...tractors for the night, ate a supper of roast beef, potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...
...press as a whole was not critical of the code. It was so anxious to be patriotic that it accepted the code without public criticism. It shared in part the attitude of famed liberal William Allen White's Emporia Gazette. Dropping the syndicated column Washington Merry-Go-Round, Editor White explained: "We. felt the authors, Mr. Pearson and Mr. Allen, were too anxious to print . . . matters which would offend the censor and possibly give aid and comfort to our enemies. . . . These young men are good reporters. They are honest and conscientious but just a shade too enterprising for these...
...readers of his Emporia (Kans.) Gazette famed Country Editor William Allen White last week suggested an "interesting game." He offered a book prize for the best list of ten Emporians most likely to be hanged to Commercial Street lampposts should Nazis capture the town. First entries came from an electrical-appliance dealer and a Santa Fe railway switchman. Like Abou ben Adhem, Editor White headed their lists...