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Loitering along the Nova Scotia coast, lying fog-bound in isolated harbors, seagoing Franklin Roosevelt last week provided the seven correspondents expensively trailing him in a chartered schooner with no more newsworthy facts than that he had clicked on a radio for Alf Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home...
Topeka correspondents who had seen him scribbling away at it on a big, yellow scratchpad were sure that Republican Nominee Alf M. Landon's acceptance speech last week (see above) was his own composition. But they also knew that that crucial declaration had, as a matter of course, been passed on by the nominee's chief political strategists, Managing Editor Roy Roberts and Kansas Manager Lacy Haynes of the Kansas City Star. They knew, too, that, as he grappled with complex national issues, modest, provincial Governor Landon had gladly turned for help on phrases, facts, ideas...
...Alf Landon's closest approach to a revelation of his political views last week was in a telegram to a First Voters League in Manhattan. Observed the Republican Presidential nominee: "If we spend what we do not have today, we must pay the bill tomorrow...
...Republican nominee on farm and foreign trade policies went that voluble New Deal outcast, onetime AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek. Revealing that the Republican platform embraced most of the farm and trade views which he had submitted in pre-Convention memoranda to both Republicans and Democrats, George Peek declared of Alf Landon: "He seems to have a good deal of understanding of these problems, but I intend to take no position until after he has declared his views specifically in his speeches...
...test the reported willingness of bankers & brokers to back Alf M. Landon at 5-to-8 odds, the pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News sent a newshawk to Wall Street with $1,600 in cash. Unable to find anyone to bet $1,000 on the Republican nominee, the newshawk reversed his position, promptly discovered a Roosevelt supporter who bet $1,400 against his $1,000 that the President would...