Word: emporia
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...There is a story that once a letter from England addressed "To the Man who made Kansas Famous" was promptly delivered to him by the Post Office Department. He did a lot for farming. He did as much for Kansas. When he died William Allen White eulogized in the Emporia Gazette: "He was the most useful Kansan of our time...
...play is "Who's Who". It was made by two skillful craftsmen, William Lindsay White '24, of Emporia, Kansas, and Joe de Ganahl '25, of White Plains, N. Y. It is very good...
William Allen White, famed editor of the Emporia Gazette: "In a speech before the Writers' Club of Columbia University, I stated that the four greatest writers of fiction in America today are Willa Cather, Edna Ferber [see Page 14], Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield. I also stated that I am 'trying to write a kindly biography of Woodrow Wilson, whose aims I have always believed in, though I sometimes despised his methods...
...Peacemaking paused while the Allied statesmen turned to watch an embarrassed artist of international reputation subside into his seat. A few rows back of him a flushed Emporia, Kans., editor?of similar reputation? likewise dropped down into his seat, amid audible whispers of 'Good for you, Bill White...
...office of The Fairbanks News Miner (Alaska) is a bit of type, handset there last Summer. The editor of the News-Miner is going to bring it to this country and give it to William Allen White, editor of The Emporia Gazette. Mr. White will present the type to the Associated Press at the annual meeting of that body in April. Why all this fuss about a bit of type? It was the last type ever set by Warren Gamaliel Harding...