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...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...
...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...
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...
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...