Word: emporia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kansas editor, wearing the grey tweed suit and grey cap that he always wears in the mountains, looking more than ever like an apple dumpling with a smile carved into its outer crust, beamed on his mountain neighbors. The nights were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...
...Shangri-La, if one could be found anywhere, than the high, autumnal fortress of Rocky Mountain Park. And if there was one U. S. citizen who seemed entitled to meditate on the mountains, undisturbed by the war, it was the genial, autumnal William Allen White, 72, editor of the Emporia Gazette for 45 years, onetime novelist, commentator, amateur politician but now chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
Public Opinion. Last year when William Allen White returned to Emporia from the Rockies, like many another citizen he was brooding on the question: What case could democracy make for itself to justify its own survival? He followed his accustomed path from his house on Exchange Street to the Gazette offices off Commercial, spoke to his neighbors, squared off for work before a desk that shed old letters, mementos, galleys, gifts, ideas, books and last year's calendars like some queer surrealistic fruit tree ready to drop its harvest. His thoughts were gloomy, but no trace of gloom showed...
...height, his old friend Clark Eichelberger, director of The League of Nations Association, called him from Manhattan, asked him to head a committee to advocate repeal of the embargo. Editor White steadfastly refused, but Eichelberger induced other friends to press him, and White finally made several speeches. In Emporia when repeal was certain, he received a two-word telegram from Franklin Roosevelt: "Thanks, Bill...
...Proudly showed the rough draft of his acceptance speech to Editor William Allen White (Emporia Gazette). Sage Mr. White announced that Wendell Willkie's victory was "in the stars," told a story: "In 1936 I told Alf Landon that he wasn't going to carry Kansas . . . But this year it's different, and Mr. Willkie is going to carry Kansas...