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...people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, both the moneyed such as the New York Stock Exchange's Emil Sehram and the politically entrenched such as Senators Arthur Capper and Alexander Wiley as well as Presidential adviser John R. Steelman. MRA is out to win the minds of the policy-shapers and the public-opinion leaders. Its great vitality renders it worth the watching...
...Topeka, Kans., Senator Arthur Capper, who will have been in the Senate 29 years next March, made almost no news at all at 82: he announced that he would be a candidate for reelection...
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, whose close attention to what interests Kansans has helped keep him in the Senate for 28 years, dutifully took to the air after some visiting farmers raved about the uses of the light plane (e.g., crop dusting). The Senator took his first flying lessons, at 82. He explained: "I think I ought to know more about these matters...
...week the Hearst empire was 60 years old. In the U.S. Senate, where its founder once hoped to sit, and in the House, where he once did, old acquaintances got off some carefully chosen but occasionally surprising words about William Randolph Hearst. Said Kansas' deaf old (81) Arthur Capper of his fellow publisher: "always. . . a fighting liberal." Said Nevada's George Malone, an old friend of the family: "still his own best editor." Edith Nourse Rogers earnestly told the House that "if ever the term 'public service' requires a synonym, I believe it will be Hearst...
...evening Star (combined circ. 725,000) would continue to blanket Kansas and western Missouri, as the biggest paper in both states. "The boss of the Star," a businessman-politician reflected last week, "is the most important man in Kansas at any given moment-more important than Alf Landon, Arthur Capper, Clyde Reed, all the congressmen and the Governor all wrapped up together. The State of Kansas is exactly what the Star wants it to be; it won't change until the Star decides it's time." The Star lived in the same city as Tom Pendergast...