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...shipped to New Mexico on a stretcher. There he began a study of local archaeology which was to make him better acquainted with the State than most of its natives. His lungs mended rapidly. In 1912 he bought the capital's only newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and promptly tacked on a Spanish edition. At the same time he jumped into politics as a Bull Mooser against Albert B. Fall's machine, which he later broke. When the U. S. entered the War, he was sent by the Intelligence Department to London. He got the British Military...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, most famed Democratic liberal until the New Deal shoved back the liberal frontier and moved out on the Santa Fe trail of experiment...
...Santa Fe he breakfasted with 60 eminent Democrats. At Albuquerque, he lunched at the Franciscan Hotel with 525 admirers who had paid $1 apiece to break bread with him. Because his afternoon was given to answering telegrams and political conferences, he did not get around to inspecting the post office, but at 5:45 o'clock he attended a 15-minute reception at the Knights of Columbus, at 6 dined with post office employes, at 7:30 paraded by car to the high-school auditorium to speak, at 9:45 was off for Arizona...
Campaign Problems. The days that James Aloysius Farley spent breakfasting, conferring, speaking, shaking hands in Indianapolis, Springfield, Kansas City, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, were repeated with only minor variations at Williams, Ariz., at Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento. Reno. At the last place he thumped for the Federal deposit guaranty law, declared: "I have heard this and that Senator given the credit for this legislation, but I want to claim it here and now for the Democratic Party, lock, steel and barrel. The guaranty of bank deposits was a very plain and very definite pledge of the Democratic...
Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific arrived from Omaha in an ordinary Pullman on a pass. So did Lawrence A. Downs of Illinois Central who lives in Chicago. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Leonor Fresnel Loree of Delaware & Hudson, Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central all left their luxurious "office" cars behind to save money, make a good impression. In the gold and amber club rooms of the Hotel Traymore they, and 61 other railroad presidents and chairmen, sat down behind closed doors to discuss ways & means of extracting more money...