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...weekend on the Mayflower found Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge entertaining Secretary of Agriculture Gore, Eugene Meyer Jr. of the War Finance Corporation and four editors and their wives: William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, G. Logan Payne of the Washington Times, George Harvey of the Washington Post and David Lawrence of the Consolidated Press. The amusements, besides the cruise on the Potomac, consisted of a cinema show, concerts by the Navy Band, conversation...
Came the publishers of Liberty, for example, "playing up" articles about Woodrow Wilson by Editor William Allen White of Kansas. Said the newspaper blurb: "That Whispering About Woodrow Wilson's Love Affairs," etc. Juxtaposed with the eminently responsible name of the editor of the Emporia Gazette, this blurb was irresistible. Yet in Editor White's article, "that whispering about Woodrow Wilson's love affairs" constituted an entirely secondary element of interest, and reference to it occupied scarcely an eighth of the article. Friends of Editor White were irritated to think that the publishers of Liberty had thus misrepresented him, since...
...next few weeks." Not all the campaign speeches of Editor William Allen White, self-nominated anti- Klan candidate for Governor of Kansas, have been as genial and mock-modest as this since he banged down his desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state-in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political fiddle has been ridicule of the Ku Klux Klan-a string which he has played with incessant vigor and variety. Reports last...
...Roosevelt Progressive Movement from 1912 to 1916, but nominally he is still Republican?not a regular, just a Republican. He turns the shafts of his humor on friend and foe alike; he speaks what he thinks; and so he is William Allen White of Emporia, Editor of the Emporia Gazette...
...between are the editors conspicuous in their communities as editors? William Allen White [Emporia, Kan.] is the shining example. In Columbus, Georgia, Julian Harris, struggling bravely with his Enquirer-Sun, bids fair to 'become for the South what 'Bill' White is for the prairies. . . . On the coast there is Fremont Older, lone survivor of a bygone epoch, who by virtue of his character, repute and personal following maintains an exceptional autonomy under Hearst ownership. There are the Scripps-Howard papers, a notable chain of twenty-six dailies in large and medium-sized cities, where the central editorial control...