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Before sailing on the Rochester thin-haired William Allen White, peripatetic Kansas editor (Emporia Gazette), member of President Hoover's commission, took occasion emphatically to deny that he had kissed or embraced a Negress on his arrival fortnight ago, as reported in the U. S. press. His version of the incident: When the Commission landed in Port-au-Prince a huge crowd was waiting on the pier. Prominent in the crowd was a white-haired old lady who fell on her knees before Editor White shrilly crying: "Deliver us! Deliver us!" Gallant Editor White made no promises, but blew...
...formal and white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...
Kansan White said, in his Emporia. Kan. Gazette, that Kansas "hereby tells the whole world that there will be a real ruckus if Washington don't do right by our Doll...
Unlike that more ebullient, cosmopolitan journalist, William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, Publisher-Senator Capper confines his interest to Kansas. Last week he editorialized: "I pledge for myself and The Capital at least another half-century's wholehearted devotion to the task of making Topeka a greater and better city; Kansas a more prosperous and happier State...
...Efrem Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann. Evanston, III., May 27-June 1, 21st annual Chicago North Shore Festival. Orchestral favorites, a few novelties, the Bach B minor Mass comprise the programs, interpreted by artists including Cyrena van Gordon, Efrem Zimbalist. Josef Hofmann, Edith Mason, Alice Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark, N. J. June opens the summer opera season at St. Louis-light opera favorites such as The Chocolate Soldier, The Bohemian Girl. On June 22 begins the famed summer season at rustic Ravinia Park, near Chicago, with Impresario Louis...