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Sirs: For the Man of the Year, and this year only; who was practically unknown before, and. tradition says, he will be Iittle known hereafter- Alfred Mossman Landon...
...merry pace. The other train, by comparison, was grim and dour, filled with advisers troubled about where the money was coming from, aides worrying over campaign details that went askew, reporters grumping over their accommodations. Only man aboard the David Livingstone special whose morale was tiptop was Alfred Mossman Landon himself. Unsparing of his strength, resolute in his good cheer, confident of his election, the Republican Nominee was battling his way forward against obvious odds and, at each step, improving his campaign technique...
...forget "was the home of John Sherman," sponsor of the Anti-trust Law), and Canton ("The home of truly beloved William McKinley"). Crossing into Pennsylvania, the train, now fairly bursting with local bigwigs, ground to a stop at West Middlesex, where in a small frame house Alfred Mossman Landon was born 49 years ago. Out hopped the spry Governor and strode down the cinder platform to the automobile in which he was to ride with rich and handsome Mrs. Worthington Scranton, Republican National Committeewoman and dowager of Pennsylvania politics. Past West Middlesex' dozen stores and between its few blocks...
...miles south to New Castle, where he dined in the Scottish Rite Cathedral with 2,000 Republicans, where he spent the night at the home of his old friend DeGrimm G. Renfro. Sunday morning he was back in West Middlesex to go to church with his uncle William T. Mossman, pressagent of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., in the old red brick Methodist Church where his grandfather, the Rev. William H. Mossman, once was pastor. The Rev. Henry G. Shilling (a registered Democrat who is going to vote for Landon) preached for 40 minutes. Having put a dollar bill...
...only new meat in this Michelson feast of criticism was Governor Earle's reference to Nominee Landon's uncle as "the chief lobbyist of the Pennsylvania steel masters." A brother of Governor Landon's late mother, William T. Mossman has been public relations chief for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. for the past 25 years. Last week Governor Earle was not the only partisan who attempted to embarrass Governor Landon by lugging his lobbyist uncle irrelevantly into the campaign. Philip Murray, head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and right-hand man of John L. Lewis...