Word: emporia
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From the America First Committee, sponsoring the rally, from Oklahoma's Governor himself, redheaded Leon C. Phillips, came protests. From neighboring Kansas came a sizzler that scorched the grass on the prairies. Careful to point out that it did not agree with Lindbergh, William Allen White's Emporia Gazette snorted...
...leading New York newspapers and magazines had to pack up on a day's notice and flee with their office boys, private papers, and a few of the staff somewhere west of the Mississippi, where the Times and the Herald Tribune had to dicker with the Emporia Gazette to use its presses and become two-page Kansas locals; if the Mirror and LIFE, without photographs, came out in Utah; if the Post were seized and George Backer, its publisher, and Dorothy Thompson were put in a concentration camp in the Catskills; if the Christian Science Monitor's editor...
...favorite Manhattan haunt-the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park-debating ways & means of converting pro-Ally sentiment into increased Allied aid. On May 6-when Chamberlain was on his way out over the Norwegian failure-White drafted a brief statement, left it with Eichelberger, returned to Emporia...
...fence is bad form. It has its poverty, but its freedom to discuss and to limit the rights of private property "gives even the most acutely underprivileged groups-Marx's proletariat-a sense that their case is not hopeless." It has its scandals and tragedies-Charley Cross, Emporia's leading banker, got his bank in difficulties in 1898 and rode to his farm on the edge of town to kill himself. "I wonder what he thought when he rode down Commercial Street for the last time." It has its twisted characters like Negro Tom Williams, Editor White...
...mostly it is made up of people like the Hiram Dales ("There are scores of people who have pinched more pennies in Emporia than the Dales"), Dan Hirschler, Belle Harris, Cass Friedburg, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, people who become presidents, people who graduate from high school, give a concert, get married, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, or just move from one house to another. And with all its injustices and monumental blunders, it has been flowering-"In my lifetime I saw unfolding before me the magnificent vision that humanity had been gestating since man came out of the forests...