Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officers of the League are William A. Kirstein, Tampa, Fla., president; Rolf Kaltenborn, Brooklyn, N. Y., vice president; George F. Halla, Troy, N. Y., secretary; William C. Engert, Cleveland, Ohio, treasurer...
...Radio Interviewer Kaltenborn. No visitors, no long-distance telephone calls, no radio news flashes had come in when he went to bed at 11:15. In California they had only begun to count the primary votes cast that day which might, more than a month in advance of the Cleveland Convention, make it virtually certain that Alf M. Landon would be the next Republican nominee for President...
...privately called Candidate Landon "wishy-washy" and "smeared with oil." Candidate Frank Knox has publicly declared Alf Landon a man after his own mind, whom he would gladly support in a Presidential campaign. Candidate William E. Borah last week announced: "If Mr. Knox or Mr. Landon comes to the Cleveland convention with a fair expression of the public that he is their choice, I'm not going to stand...
...Governor Landon is nominated at Cleveland, pious people who dislike the Roosevelt religious record will have a chance to vote for a Methodist who goes to church about as irregularly as the present President...
...Some members of a prospective For-Landon-Before-Cleveland club: Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller: onetime Ambassador to Mexico J. Reuben Clark Jr.; Penman Walter A. Schaeffer; Saltman Sterling Morton; Princeton Professor William Starr Meyers; Publisher Eugene Meyer; Railroader Ralph Budd; Motorman Charles W. Nash: President Michael Joseph O'Brien of Chicago's Stock Exchange...