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Perhaps it is just as lucky that the G.O.P. has never dwelt too long on this phase of its bid for power. When the shouting dies away and the cold light of reason is applied to the record and personality of the nominee fro the presidency--Alf M. Landon--one is surprised that the American public has ever been cozened into accepting as a candidate for its highest office a man whose record is one of drab mediocrity and whose personal qualifications keep him as far removed from being a presidential possibility as Kansas is removed from the Atlantic seaboard...
...Moines speech was strictly agricultural. Alf Landon told his listeners what he would bid for the farm vote against the bids hastily and simultaneously made last week by the New Deal. Applause was more frequent than in most Landon speeches. When he said of the New Deal farm program, "like the automobile manufacturers, the Administration believes in bringing out a new model every year," he got laughter as well as cheers. Next day he lunched with State GOP Chairman Carl Cook, 300 newspaper editors and 99 farmers, dined that evening with Cartoonist "Ding" Darling...
...ballots on both parties, it was the nation's greatest single political force, vigilantly alert for "un-Americanism" as it packed Congress with its members. A fellow-member, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was already in the White House and another would take his place if Alf M. Landon should win. History owed the Legion four presidents more...
...York City won next year's convention with the slogan"March Up Fifth Avenue Again in 1937." Unanimously chosen, the Legion's new commander was a sturdy, dark-haired, 45-year-old Topeka, Kans. corporation lawyer named Harry Walter Colmery, who, like Topeka's Alf Landon, is a Pennsylvania-born Republican. A Wartime aviator who has made the Legion his prime avocation, Commander Colmery declared last week:"Our danger lies in our own apathy, coupled with the fact that we have a tendency now and then to stick our nose into other people's business instead...
...bankers were apparently aware of this attitude. Furthermore, while Franklin D. Roosevelt led all the rest on a list of men whose views on finance met with public approval, no banker showed up in the list until it had passed down through Ogden Mills, Senator Glass, Senator Borah, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, William L. Lemke, Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, Norman Thomas...