Word: kansan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Siberia, Commissar "Mike" Kalugin ("strictly Tammany" said another U.S. correspondent) walked down a factory assembly line "talking to the workers, a wave of the hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower met up with a fellow Kansan, Pfc. Rolla Ummel, somewhere in France, asked him what he had done before the war. When Ummel answered that he had been a farmer, the General asked: "How about giving me a job after the war?" Said the private cautiously: "I don't know, sir, but I'll keep you in mind...
...Kansas City Star printed a note from a Kansan in New Delhi: "I read an article saying that American scientists are developing a new breed of sheep with short legs. They also are trying to develop turkeys with smaller bodies to provide small pieces for small families. I am sure these scientists have never been where they had to eat mutton cooked British style. . . . Legislation should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home...
Died. William Allen White, 75, most famed contemporary Kansan, independent Republican, main street philosopher, author of 15 books (including biographies of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Coolidge); after long illness; in his native Emporia, where for 49 years he had edited the Gazette, making it the most quoted of all country newspapers. To his widow and son, William L. White, who succeeds him (TIME, Jan. 31), came a telegram from a frequent Gazette editorial target, Franklin Roosevelt: "He ennobled the profession of journalism . . . a real sense of personal loss . . . we had been the best of friends." The U.S. had lost...
...active Republican, he has fought Democrats all his life. His political activity hit top in 1936 when Kansan Alf Landon was running for President...