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...speaker grinned. He was the retiring Governor of Kansas, Alfred Mossman Landon, and all the newshawks in the executive office lobby of the White House grinned with him. After a call, by Presidential invitation, which had been prolonged into an hour's chat, Alf Landon had just emerged, and for one day Franklin Roosevelt had the curious experience of being thrown into the shade by his political rival of 1936. Alf Landon gave Washington newshawks the impression not only of being a good loser but of being a fine fellow. Publicly and privately those who had been far from...
That evening President Roosevelt-squired for the first time by his new bodyguard, Thomas Quakers, successor to Gus Gennerich-attended the semi-annual Gridiron Club dinner and show. There he and Alf Landon sat at the head table, both made satirical off-the-record speeches and newshawks to their surprise agreed that Alf Landon, in wit and composure, came off by no means second best as after-dinner speaker...
...Topeka, Kansas' Electoral College cast nine printed slips into a yellow cardboard box for Roosevelt & Garner. Present was Democratic Governor-Elect Walter Huxman, not present was Alf Landon who had certified the results in advance. Said Kansas' Republican Secretary of State Frank J. Ryan (reelected in November on a platform of "I want the job: it pays well") as the electors filed out: "God be with you till we meet again, but I hope it will not be under the same circumstances...
Week after taking Governor Alf Landon on a Florida hunting & fishing trip, Guide Walter ("Red") Welner was lost in the woods two days. Speeding through Missouri, the train bearing Governor Landon home to Topeka cut a 1,600-gal. oil truck in two, badly burned the driver...
Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...