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...afternoon last fortnight in Topeka, Kans., a lamb-faced, inoffensive oilman was called to the telephone, invited to lunch at the White House with the President. Alfred Mossman Landon, titular chief of the Republican Party, came away worried. He had just issued a statement praising the President's defense speech. Through the U. S. press blew high, windy talk of national unity. It was known that Mr. Roosevelt had offered Republican Frank Knox-for the second time-the Secretaryship of the Navy. It was reported that the Labor portfolio had been offered to New York City's baggy...
...MOSSMAN Pittsburgh...
...ROBERT MOSSMAN Ardmore...
Going ashore from a friend's ketch, the Blue Moon, for a visit in friendly Maine (one of the two States which wanted him for President), Alfred Mossman London slipped, cracked two ribs. He got himself strapped up, continued his cruise...
Methodist doctrines and ritual are flexible enough so that little controversy arose over their definition. But over a lengthy and liberal social creed submitted to the Conference, there was a sputter. Delegate Alfred Mossman Landon objected to the section which promised the support of the Methodist Church to conscientious objectors. Youngish Delegate Lloyd E. Foster of East Orange, N. J. shouted that only the "grey-haired and baldheaded" objected to the section. Red-faced, Delegate Landon shouted: "I submit that the argument is a cowardly one!" Nevertheless, the Conference voted down grey-haired Mr. Landon...