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...Music Editor who wisely dedicated a column and a half of his department in the May 20 issue to excerpts from a characteristically sage editorial by our beloved Kansas editor, William Allen White. It definitely puts one heretofore lively controversy in the category of finished business. The Sage of Emporia has hit the proverbial nail so well on the head that there remains no nail to work...
Following the lead of William Allen White, Kansas editor of the "Emporia Gazette," who is national chairman of the committee, the Bay State organization seeks the signatures of one-fourth of the state's population on a giant petition to be sent to President Roosevelt. The new group also will supervise the formation of sub-committees throughout New England...
...Allies. There was strength in the U. S.'s final acceptance of the fact that whatever policy the U. S. followed meant risk. In Emporia, Kans., Editor William Allen White did what few observers of Midwest sentiment believed possible a fortnight ago: organized a Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Editor White's program: all possible legal aid short of armed force...
President Conant was introduced by William Allen White, editor of the Emporia, Kansas Gazette and chairman of the Committee. White told of a letter which Conant sent to Governor Alfred M. Landon last September in which he expressed this same feeling that "if the Allies are defeated by a totalitarian power the hope of free institutions as a basis of modern civilization will be jeopardized...
Last week Emporia, Kans. held a five-day Fiestaval to dedicate its new $613.000 Civic Auditorium. Jiving, jittering climax of the Fiestaval was a dance, to music supplied (at $1,100) by dapper Duke Ellington, greatest of black swing-sters, and his band. The Sage of Emporia, wise old William Allen White, watched the cavortings, went home and wrote a garrulous, kindly-shrewd editorial for his Emporia Gazette. Excerpts...