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...rejected the services of AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, hired a Washington lawyer as his personal attorney, paid him $4,603 salary out of his own pocket. Eventually leaving the New Deal's service, stubborn Mr. Peek removed himself completely from its good graces when he plumped for Alf Landon (TIME, Oct. 12). Last week, when he petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for redress, it was revealed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue, rejecting piqued Mr. Peek's claim that his lawyer's pay was a deductible business expense, had ruled it a personal expense and slapped...
...vacation in Monticello, Fla. went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami...
...Edison plant. He lives quietly with his wife (they are childless) in a large stone residence in Llewellyn Park, a private residential section in West Orange. Hard by is the home of his mother, Thomas Edison's second wife, now Mrs. Edward Everett Hughes. Mrs. Hughes publicly supported Alf Landon while her son was supporting President Roosevelt. At 46, with his heavy black hair turning grey, Charles Edison bears a noticeable resemblance to his famed father...
...Roosevelt's promises and policies, at the more & more conservative editorial stand of the Post-Dispatch which has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Last September, the Post-Dispatch jumped the political fence outright, joined the majority of the nation's dailies in favoring the election of Alf M. Landon. Solely responsible for the switch were sardonic Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard and Owner Joseph Pulitzer, a rich, respectable member of the rich, Right-thinking St. Louis Country Club...
...FARLEY and John Daniel Miller Hamilton who are pitting President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Alf M. Landon against each other fall, have one thing in common. Both are seasoned joiners and good Elks, since both have been in politics for a long time. Jim didn't go to college, so he missed joining a Greek Fraternity. John D. M. didn't became a Phi Alpha Delta at Northwestern University in 1916. Curly-haired, youthful, with a smile and a direct manner of speaking as valuable as Jim Farley's handshake, John D. M. Hamilton is better looking than...