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...same day at Ardmore, Okla. And it was Bailey's fugitive partner, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly who last week threatened the life of Urschel and other witnesses if they testified at the trial. It was doubtless Kelly who threatened also to kidnap Peggy Ann, daughter of Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas unless he pardoned some Bailey gangsters now in Kansas Penitentiary. And Kelly was even linked to last week's robbery of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank which resulted in the murder of a policeman...
...distrustful of his own State officers and political associates, put militia in charge of the State Treasury. Treasurer Boyd admitted having let Ronald Finney take away $150,000 of bonds deposited with the State. After a hearing that disclosed how Ronald Finney had entertained State employes, male and female, Alf Landon left with the remark, "I'm heartbroken...
...Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under the skin," Kipling wrote. The parallelism between upstairs where Robert Marryot is taking leave of his wife and below stairs where Alf Bridges, the butler, is kissing his baby goodby, is maintained throughout "Cavalcade...
Kansas. Republican Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon, 45, of Independence, saved his state from a goat gland government when he defeated "Dr." John R. Brinkley, blatant independent, radio medicine man, and simultaneously wrested the governorship away from Democrat Harry Woodring. In 1912 he was a rampant Progressive, is regular today. Oil made him rich. All in one week last year he won the party nomination for governor, became the father of a daughter and brought in a 500-bbl.-per-day oil well. As a boy he once held an old hen on her nest until she delivered the egg necessary...
...only does the American Medical Association view Candidate Brinkley with alarm but so do the regular Kansas gubernatorial nominees, Republican Alf M. Landon and Democrat Harry Woodring, who is trying to succeed himself. Both have devoted considerable effort to chocking what appears to be a steadily oncoming Brinkley steamroller. Two years ago Governor Woodring squeezed into office with a majority of 319 votes. John Brinkley, his name not on the ballot, polled close to the leaders with 188,000 votes...