Word: kansans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gavel, said he: "Anticipating that question I have asked the [Legion's] National Judge Advocate [Scott W. Lucas] to advise me whether, in his opinion, the introduction of this subject would be in violation of our constitution. He advises that it is not. I agree. "Personally." added Kansan O'Neil, "I believe that there are many much more important matters which should properly occupy our time.'' After the wrangle which followed, a resolution was adopted 1.008-to-394 which attempted to sound impartial, but which read patently Wet: "Whereas the 18th Amendment of the Constitution...
Died, Daniel Read Anthony Jr., 60, onetime Congressman from the first Kansas district, after a ten day illness; near Leavenworth, Kan. A nephew of the late fiery Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony, he had served as Representative longer (1907-29) than any other Kansan...
...Author, Thomas Craven, 42, is a red-haired Kansan, as unassuming in private conversation as he is dogmatic on the printed page. He has been a reporter in Denver, a schoolmaster in California and Porto Rico, a deckhand in the West Indies, an unsuccessful painter and poet. His essay, "Have Painters Minds?" in the American Mercury for March 1927, brought him into contact with such critical bigwigs as Britain's Roger Fry, France's Elie Faure. Today the entire U. S. art world pays attention...
Following the recent arrest of eight undergraduates at the University of Kansas on liquor charges, the fraternities passed resolutions against drinking. From an anonymous band of scholastic vigilantes came an ominous letter to the Daily Kansan (student organ) last week: "To Whom It May Concern: . . . We, a group of eight students with the co-operation of an outside group, are taking it upon ourselves to see that these [fraternity] promises are fulfilled. . . . Watch your step" (Signed) THE GROUP OF EIGHT...
...called Threefold because its ideals are cultural, racial and spiritual unity. Prominent U. S. Threefolders: Robert Norwood, dynamic rector of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Manhattan; Joseph Fort Newton, famed Philadelphia divine; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg; Journalist Louis Wiley (New York Times); Negro Author James Weldon Johnson; Kansan William Allen White; John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University...