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...time he reached Des Moines for his meeting with Alf Landon (see col. 3), President Roosevelt had seen the worst of the Drought. Rolling East next day into the mild Drought belt, he stopped at Hannibal, Mo. to help dedicate a Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi. At Springfield, Ill. for Drought talks with Illinois officials, a telephone talk with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau gave him occasion to declare: "The obligations of the Government-of the United States-are on a sounder basis of credit than ever before in history...
...visit the State Fair, three hours at the Indianapolis Athletic Club for luncheon and a Drought conference with the Governors and Senators of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. The fact that he did not get the GOPresidential nomination enabled Michigan's Senator Vandenberg to be less circumspect than Alf Landon had been at Des Moines. Before entering the conference, Senator Vandenberg remarked: "It's been dry in Michigan, but we only knew casually it was a Drought until this trip." Emerging, he reported on results: "We accomplished a mutual exchange of congenialities." Heading for Nebraska, the Michigan Senator...
...where the conferees were to confer. Governor Herring removed political photographs, even hid a bronze bust of the President. "Of course," conceded he, "every time the President or Governor Landon takes off his hat there is some political effect." But so far as appearances were concerned, Franklin Roosevelt and Alf Landon were doggedly determined to pretend that no such thing as a Presidential campaign was going...
Meantime in Topeka, Alf Landon had been up at 5 a. m. Not stopping to shave, he put on a white linen suit with unaccustomed vest, swallowed his breakfast, hurried downtown to meet his agricultural experts. First hitch in his plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most...
...have," returned Alf Landon, "but I got here on time...