Word: ratner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Ratner, for one, is sick & tired of hearing critics pick on radio. "Radio's made in the image of the American people," says he. "To lambaste it is-why, it's un-American...
From across the Kaw River, artillery began to pound. Eighty armored cars poured across the bridge at 40 m.p.h. Fifth columnists appeared at intersections to direct motorized cavalry and infantrymen in trucks. Governor Payne Ratner was captured at his big white mansion while he was at breakfast. His two sons laughed at the show, but his tiny daughter squalled. Over at the Statehouse the Governor was lined up with other hostages. A noncom grated, "Take off your hats...
...cavalry had Topeka under control. Said Governor Ratner, before he went back to his interrupted breakfast: "We should thank our heavenly father that we have only make-believe blitzkriegs in America today. And we should be eternally grateful to the men who are taking this training so that none will ever reach our shores...
Pleased and surprised as a child was Governor Ratner when Legionnaires gave him an ovation. To newsmen, from whom he has never hidden the fact that most of his speeches are ghostwritten, the Governor confided: "This one I did my self. I even typed the manuscript. No it." one except my wife saw it before I gave More than one man's dramatic change of heart contributed to this conversion...
Kansas lately has been restive under isolationist leadership. Governor Ratner, who keeps his ear close to the ground, knows the rumble of a stampede when he hears it approaching. With his speech last week he put himself squarely on the side he thinks will win when isolationism gets its first test in Kansas next year. If all goes as he expects, he may be next in line for sere old Arthur Capper's Senate seat...