Word: emporia
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...guarantee of good humored independence for the next year, the Society's directors elected pink-cheeked William Allen White, good-humored, independent editor of the Emporia Gazette, as their president...
...Author. Round-faced, mild-mannered William Lindsay White resembles his famed father, Kansas Editor William Allen White. But of his father's homey writing on Midwestern small-town life Author White's novel shows no trace. Born 37 years ago in Emporia, Kansas (five years after his father bought the Emporia Gazette), Author White well knows the Midwest he writes about. He knows other environments as well. At 18 his father took him to the Versailles Peace Conference. Graduated from Harvard in 1924, after a year at the University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years...
...Foundation's former President George E. Vincent, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr, University of Chicago's Vice President William Benton and Professor Thomas V. Smith, Wharton School of Finance's Dean Joseph H. Willits, TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce, Emporia Gazette's Editor William Allen White, Fordham's President Robert I. Gannon, former U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde, New York University's Chancellor Harry W. Chase...
...battle of all nations as the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Battalion and other foreign battalions moved into the Leftist lines. New Year's Eve saw Spaniards, Italians, U. S. citizens, Moors, Germans, Czechs and Frenchmen all fighting for a town on a river bank about the size of Emporia, Kans...
...been honored, but in reading the lists one cannot help feeling that the awards were extravagantly made and that a distressing number of the recipients were men of mediocre talents. Thomas Mann and Einstein honored Harvard by their very presence here, but it seems that the editor of the Emporia Gazette and the chronicler of Harvard history have yet to reach their full stature...