Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William H. Banaka, of 1201 E. 59th St., Kansan City, a graduate of the Westport High School...
...years ago, when the Post was in a slump, plump Editor Wesley Winans Stout stepped out. Before his chair had cooled, Curtis Publishing Co.'s President Walter D. Fuller set Ben Hibbs in it, and gave him plenty of elbow room. A tall, quiet-spoken Phi Beta Kappa Kansan, 45-year-old Ben Hibbs had been putting some spring in the Country Gentleman's step...
This done, the Republicans checked out of the Kansan Hotel. Next morning cleaning women removed a near truckload of empty whiskey bottles from bedrooms; bellhops rested after a tough day & night of toting sparkling water and ice; and Topeka bootleggers happily totaled up the receipts...
...feit free to say many things that her husband did not. As New Dealers the Clappers often admired Roosevelt, often felt disappointed in him, supported him except in 1940, when Raymond-but not Olive-switched to Willkie. Both of the Clappers felt closer to their fellow Kansan Alf Landon (whom Clapper opposed jn 1936) than to all the Roosevelts put together...
Concludes Kansan White: "The way to understand Capitalism is not to memorize the long words economists use. It is to go some place where they don't have...