Word: kansans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, they are un-pledged; nor is it by any means certain that the genial Kansan will be the national Republican choice next June. Borah is a definite possibility, as is Knox, and there is always that man named Hoover. Support of the President by his party, on the other hand, if casual, was at least certain, and if this is not the case at the Philadelphia convention, it will be most unusual. The obvious inference is that Massachusetts Republicans voted for Landon because he is the most in the limelight at the present moment, an uncertain reason at best...
...fair, blue-eyed Kansan, Editor Shively went to the University of Nebraska and to Columbia, is exceedingly modest and possessed of considerable charm. He writes with a cynical gusto that sometimes startles the Sun's sedate readers, occasionally breaks from earnest interpretation into verse such as this, which was run under a subhead...
...They would like to be assured that all public officials who take oaths of allegiance as they assume public office consider those same oaths as sacredly as do school and college teachers to the end that government becomes as high a calling as teaching. - University Daily Kansan...
...miserly appearance, his proclivity for backing the athletic teams of his Alma Mater, the State University, with nickel bets, have helped win him the title of "Coolidge of the West." Landon backers noisily point out that Kansas has no State debt. Soft-pedaled is the fact that many a Kansan would have gone hungry in the past two years without the Federal Government's donation of $100,000,000 in relief funds (equal to the State's annual income...
...candidate for President? By way of answer, they produced a note written by Mr. Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred his legal residence, as of March 4, 1933, to Washington, D. C. No more was onetime Vice President Curtis a Kansan, and on Nov. 3, 1936, as a resident of the District of Columbia, he cannot even cast a ballot for his favorite candidate...