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While these plans were being perfected, Franklin Roosevelt, leisurely rolling East from Salt Lake City, with stops for Drought inspection in Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska, was pondering his own strategic problems. Well did he know that it was Nominee Landon's prospective attendance which had converted an otherwise routine conference into a spectacularly newsworthy event. He realized, too, that any attempt to take political advantage of that circumstance would react sharply against him. Day before the meeting it was announced that he would not seek to commit his conferees to any statement of policy. Sternly rejected was a proposal...
Barred out by a canvas screen were some 100 correspondents and photographers as the President and some 60 Governors, Senators and drought experts sat down to a fried-chicken lunch at seven round tables in Governor Herring's big reception room. But bursts of loud laughter and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, popping out with a round-by-round account, kept the newshawks informed. Afterwards various official onlookers were glad to furnish details of the momentous meeting. At the President's table sat Federal District Judge Charles A. Dewey, four Democratic Governors and one Farmer-Laborite Governor (Iowa, Nebraska...
...settled by admitting the groups according to the order in which their States had been admitted to the Union. Missouri (1821) went first, next Iowa (1846), then Kansas (1861). With Senators Capper and McGill and his four experts, Governor Landon pulled up a chair, spent half an hour discussing Drought in Kansas with the President and those other prime Republican targets, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Resettlement Administrator Tugwell. WPAdministrator Hopkins. Their talk, it was reported, differed not at all from others the President had been having on his tour. At its end Governor Landon left a memorandum built around...
...Governor Landon drove down to the Rock Island yards for a steak dinner with the other Governors in the Presidential private car. This time he sat on the President's left and the conversation, according to Governor Herring, ranged over "everything from Spain to the Drought...
...railroads to establish joint drought emergency rates for shipments of feed and cattle in Kansas...