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...rabbit, the two major party candidates for President last week coursed hither and yon, frantically nosing crisscross tracks which to their nostrils had a delicious odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds raised their heads and bayed for the delectation of the countryside. Alf Landon's course, starting from Philadelphia, doubled back to Pittsburgh, veered to Newark. N. J., swept into Manhattan (where at the old-fashioned Murray Hill Hotel he met Al Smith for the first time), dashed out to Oyster Bay, L. I., home of Widow Edith Carow Roosevelt, paused...
...second addition to the campaign was Alf Landon's final effort to pin down Franklin Roosevelt on his intention of reviving or of not reviving NRA. Either stand would have cost the New Deal votes. At Madison Square Garden, twenty cheering thousands helped Alf Landon drive home his oft-repeated challenge. At the same place two nights later Franklin Roosevelt had twenty other cheering thousands to applaud his indignant denial of the charge that his intentions are unknown...
...Ladies and Gentlemen," he began. Not a word was audible above the hubbub. Long-suffering as Caspar Milquetoast, he repeated his salutation ten or a dozen times before the crowd permitted him to be heard. Then, halting frequently, with eyes often searching anxiously for his place in his manuscript, Alf Landon read the closing speech of his campaign, not a much better orator than he began it. But the crowd which his oratory could not sway continued to cheer for they had come like most Alf Landon crowds because they liked the big sign that hung in the Auditorium...
...Francisco Chronicle, the Se attle Times and the Portland Oregonian have managed to be strongly pro-Landon without being rabidly anti-Roosevelt. Despite the fact that its Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes are Alf Landon's closest advisers, the Kansas City Star has gone so far as to criticize mildly the Republican Nominee's tariff views...
...question of the press's power to influence its readers' votes, a significant commentary last week was that, with the press thus pumping for him by more than 2-to-1, Wall Street betting odds against Alf Landon's election were...