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...most exciting thing that happened to Alf Landon last week was his meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at Des Moines (see p. 13). Before & after that event, the Republican Presidential nominee...
...When Alf M. Landon stopped talking generalities and got down to cases at Buffalo fortnight ago, one of his lustiest blows was aimed at New Deal taxation. "If the major portion of the Government's income," he orated, "is obtained from indirect and hidden taxes-taxes upon such things as food, clothing, gasoline and cigarets-then the main burden falls upon those of small income...
...taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income, on capital stock and on excess profits. These three, the only ones which Alf Landon could possibly reduce if he went to the White House, were not hidden but direct taxes, which he favors...
Notable if not definitive is Editor White's account of how a group of Kansas editors and oilmen who had grown up together ran Alf Landon's pre-convention campaign which began "all hilarious and haphazard, all country town stuff . . . an amiable, neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck...
...about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish...