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...vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon...
...tour, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Frank Knox arrived one day last fortnight in Allentown, Pa. Having asserted within the week that Franklin Roosevelt was leading the U. S. toward Communism and that the nation would be better off today if it had had no Government at all since 1932, Alf Landon's First Mate proceeded to continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people between liberty and security. . . . The present Administration...
...Governor Alfred E. Smith. In 1928 Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated him for Governor. After that "General" Ottinger, who enjoys a tall weak highball, spent his time propagandizing for Repeal. Keeping a finger in national politics, he organized a Landon-for-President movement in Manhattan long before the conventions, visited Alf M. Landon in Topeka before his nomination. Unimpressed by the Ottinger "Landon Clubs" John Hamilton pointedly neglected them when he organized the Landon pre-convention campaign in New York...
Still nursing that grievance was "General" Ottinger when he turned up one night last week to speak at the Republican Club of Astoria. L. I. Presumably repeating a conversation with the nominee, he croaked: "Governor Landon believes prohibition is a State and not a National issue. Alf M. Landon may not take a drink in a Dry State but he will in a Wet State...
Pained by the irregularity with which the question of Nominee Landon's drinking habits had been brought into the open, Republican spokesmen in Topeka let it be known that Alf M. Landon 1) "drank" as a young man; 2) now drinks only an occasional beer; 3) keeps neither beer nor liquor in the icebox or pantry of the Executive Mansion of Dry Kansas; 4) might possibly take a highball in a Wet State although he has often refused one; 5) regards drinking "tolerantly...