Word: ratner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right in deep Republican, dark isolationist Kansas, Alf Landon lost a man overboard last week from his peace-minded crew. The deserter was none other than Governor Payne Ratner...
Last winter Ratner sent the Legislature a special message which led to an almost unanimous resolution urging Congress to reject the Lend-Lease bill. But last week he stunned the American Legion State Convention in Topeka with one of the most rousing speeches ever heard in Kansas...
...thoroughly revised Law School Year Book will make it appearance next Thursday. Editor-in-chief Robert S. Ratner 3L and Chairman of the Year book Committee Delmar W. Hollman 3L have prepared a volume with a revamped format and several new and enlivening features and have dedicated it to Oliver Wendell Holmes, on time Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
Kansans wondered when they would learn who their new Governor was. Week ago Democratic Candidate William H. Burke had apparently defeated Republican Governor Payne Ratner in a State that went Republican. But some 16,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted. This week, with about 5,000 uncounted ballots left, Burke's lead had been whittled to 1,310 votes. What disturbed him most was that his opponent had been getting 70% of the absentees. If that trend held up he would lose by a hair...
...Kansas, Republican Governor Payne Ratner appeared to be defeated in a State that went Republican, with absentee ballots officially deciding Kansas' new Governor. Residential voters gave Governor Ratner 416,480; Democratic Candidate William H. Burke, 418,359. But before that 1,879-vote margin made Mr. Burke Governor-elect, some 16,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted. Kansas politicos guessed they would not change the result...