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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formally accepting his nomination for the Presidency, Governor Landon chose to fight with cold water the fire of New Deal enthusiasm (TIME, Aug. 3). Against the advice of those who felt that Republicans must start a back-fire of enthusiasm, against rabid New Deal haters who wanted him to preach a holy crusade, Nominee Landon offered no burning sentiments, spoke in no burning voice. Last week in accepting the Republican Vice Presidential nomination Publisher Knox of the Chicago Daily News cut loose with a red-hot attack on the New Deal which made GOPartisans jump with...
Hardly had Nominee Alf Landon's acceptance speech been broadcast (TIME, Aug. 3) than Franklin Roosevelt's ace political pressagent, Charles Michelson, began to plan to put this old political maxim into effect. For the occasion he arranged an hour's nation-wide radio hookup. For the job of demolishing Republican Landon he shrewdly picked six of the President's official inferiors and the Governor's official equals-six Democratic Governors, from six States geographically selected to enfilade Kansas from assorted distances and directions...
Officially veterans had been invited only to have tea on the lawn of Buckingham Palace with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, following the Canadian pilgrimage to see King Edward dedicate the Vimy Ridge memorial in France (TIME, Aug. 3). Unexpectedly His Majesty arrived and was shouldering his way unannounced through the mass of Dominion veterans when they recognized him with shouts of "Oh boy, the King! Good old Neddy!" slapped their King-Emperor on the back, vigorously wrung his hand...
...left the Nashville Tennessean 19 years ago to join the Chicago Tribune as No. 2 cartoonist. First draughtsman of the Tribune then as now was John Tinney McCutcheon. Fortnight ago the Tribune again raided the Tennessean for an artist. It was announced that to the Chicago paper on Aug. 1 would go 30-year-old Joseph Parrish, whose work Cartoonist Orr and Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick had been quietly admiring. Packing up in Nashville, Democratic Cartoonist Joe Parrish drawled: "Now I reckon I'll have to learn how to draw Republican elephants...
Affecting the science of Traffic Control is one uncontrollable element-aroused public opinion. At present, after a notable din of propaganda started by J. C. Furnas' And Sudden Death (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935), public opinion gives evidence of being permanently aroused. Largely because of this permanent safety drive, automobile fatalities for the first five months of 1936 are 3-5% less than last year...