Word: levander
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Wichita, Kan. is famed for stockyards, broom factories, oil refineries, Quakers. Lately it has been calling itself "aviation capital of the U. S." having forty-seven aeronautical enterprises in or near it. In the past fortnight Wichita has become indebted for further prominence to Max and Louis Levand, co-publishers (with their brother John as circulation manager) of the Wichita Beacon, formerly owned by Senator Henry Justin Allen...
...from feeling personally abused, the Levands last week were making fine capital of Mr. Legge's remark. They printed all dispatches mentioning their part in the controversy. They said that Chairman Legge had "told Kansas to go to hell." Their seven-column headlines shrieked: CONGRESSIONAL PROBE OF LEGGE IS DEMANDED. The story explained that the Brothers Levand were the demanders, that they had telegraphed Sen- ator Capper of Kansas to get busy...
...Denver Post and the office of his sly, genial partner, the late famed H. H. ("Tarn") Tammen, there used to be a desk to which each partner would send the kind of orders that great publishers send to their Men Friday. At that desk for many years sat Louis Levand, patient, portly, devoted. Brother John Levand was in the Post's circulation department. Brother Max, too, was on the staff, more driving and hard-boiled than the other two. "Bon" and "Tarn" sent him to be business man ager of their Kansas City Post, where he remained 16 years. When...
...Levands' Beacon soon jolted Wichita like a battering ram. It sprouted all the loud, flamboyant labels of the Denver Post. It applied all the high-pressure business technique of the adroit and powerful Bonfils & Tammen. The Brothers Murdock at first affected to ignore the newcomers but rural Kansas editors have found that an almost certain way of getting themselves quoted in the Murdocks' Eagles is to take a crack at the (to them) unspeakable Levands. Some of these cracks, which the Brothers Levand say are "inspired" by the Brothers Murdock, are too much for even the Mur docks to reprint...
...City Chairman Legge, referring to Kansas as the largest U. S. wheat producing State, declared: "The biggest hog will always lie in the trough. Kansas is now in its trough." By the time he had reached Amarillo, Tex., Kansas was up in arms at his epithet. Max and Louis Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, wired President Hoover that his Farm Board Chairman had "insulted 1.850.000 people," demanded Mr. Legge's resignation. To Chairman Legge they telegraphed...