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Roosevelt, was already in the White House and another would take his place if Alf M. Landon should win." In order to keep the record straight I would refer you to a letter addressed to the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt by Representative Royal C. Johnson under date of Oct. 18, 1932 in which he says in part as follows: "As the member of the House of Representatives who introduced in Congress in 1919 a resolution creating the American Legion as a national and quasi governmental organization, and as one familiar with the constitution of the Legion, I must direct your...
...member of the Cabinet who has never been labeled a New Dealer was ordered to the stump in defense of the Administration. Obediently Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a Democratic classicist from Tennessee, packed his bag, boarded a Pullman headed for Minneapolis to speak from the very platform where Alf Landon spoke a fortnight earlier, to answer the attack which that Republican Nominee leveled at President Roosevelt's reciprocal trade agreements...
...time for all good Governors to come to the aid of their parties. Unfortunately for Alf Landon, aside from himself only eight of the 48 Governors can come to the aid of the Republican Party in the 1936 Presidential campaign. Governor Bridges of New Hampshire and Governor Smith of Vermont are satisfied that their States are already in the Republican bag. On the other hand, Governor Merriam of California, Governor Nice of Maryland and Governor Welford of North Dakota would probably privately concede that their States are in Franklin Roosevelt's bag. Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck...
...which George Peek thought Secretary Hull was mishandling. So he quit the Democrats for good. Last week he completed the cycle, announced, after twice publicly postponing his selection, that the man who would give the farmers the best break from the White House in 1937-41 would be Republican Alf Landon...
...until his brokerage business folded up in 1931. Forecaster Dunn got his idea of tabulating putative editorial influence two years ago. The Landon prediction is in the nature of a public try-out for a weekly prediction which Mr. Dunn wishes to market as a "commercial protection service." If Alf M. Landon is elected next month, Rogers C. Dunn expects to be rocketed to the front rank of U. S. business soothsayers, be assured of a respectful and lucrative following. On the other hand, if Governor Landon is not elected, Mr. Dunn himself agrees that it will be best...