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With his wife of five months, gusty, marcelled Kansan John Daniel Miller Hamilton, who campaignmanaged Landon to victory in Maine & Vermont in 1936, bought a $100,000 Main Line estate, settled down to become a Philadelphia lawyer...
...Lindbergh appeared, to reiterate his House testimony of Jan. 23. The other headliners did poorly-General Robert E. Wood, isolationist mail-order tycoon ; isolationist ex-Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin; belligerent Isolationist Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher. There were 22 others, from Historian Charles A. Beard to Kansan Alf M. Landon, from Military Expert George Fielding Eliot to Chamber of Commerce President James S. Kemper...
...incident got an exceptionally bad press. Franklin Roosevelt read the papers over his breakfast coffee, grabbed the telephone, and himself called Mr. Landon. The Kansan, in a press conference, was at the peak of a denunciation of Term III. Everybody had muffed everything, said the President mellowly; he always liked to eat lunch with Mr. Landon whenever he happened to pass through Washington. Mr. Landon, 835 miles away in Chicago, just gulped, then entrained for Washington...
Apprehensive Republicans steeled Alf Landon for the dangerous lunch. Collar askew, pants rumpsprung as ever, the Kansan appeared at the White House, reappeared almost two hours later, said: "We talked of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings." "Cabinets and kings?" asked a reporter. Cabbages, said Mr. Landon. He went back to his hotel room, there dictated another vigorous blast against a Third Term. Mr. Roosevelt could have national unity, he said, if he would at once renounce Term III. This statement went big with all G. O. P. leaders, drew a laudatory press...
Editors Craven and Boswell, both grassrooters for the current U. S. school, preach an esthetic doctrine of flag-waving. Writes Critic Craven, himself a Kansan: "These vigorous Americans . . . have achieved a body of painting . . . which has announced the beginning of a distinctly American style." Editor Boswell makes the eagle scream louder, says contemporary U. S. painting is "bred of politico-economic nationalism and the concurrent resentment against the high-pressure dumping of inferior foreign art on the home market." His small-town merchant advice: "Patronize your local art exhibitions...