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...devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt and a medallion of the Virgin Mary in the lining of his coat, never ventured to conduct without them both. When he was not conducting or studying scores, he could usually be found in the gallery of a Nicollet Avenue cinema theatre...
Minneapolis. After ten way-station stops Governor Landon arrived afternoon later in Minneapolis. No parade was waiting to meet him, for Minneapolis is in the grip of four mill strikes and a parade might have been seized on by radicals as occasion for a demonstration. When he left the Nicollet Hotel to go to the municipal auditorium, a small group of workmen was waiting for him. "Boo!" they shouted, "We're for Roosevelt! Boo! You're just another Hoover...
...these many years- I mean the Penny Press-I read, through a megaphone, his famous speech as it came over the telegraph from the convention hall in Chicago. I read it to a great crowd of citizens who stood on the street below-on Newspaper Row-Fourth Street between Nicollet and First. When he grew grass in the streets of the cities and bore down upon the brow of labor his Cross of Gold I was more excited than I ever have been at a football game. I nearly fell into the street from the window sill. Later I traveled...
...Next morning dawned in wind and rain, 30° cooler than the day before. Crowds, undeterred, gathered before the Kellogg house. Shortly before noon, the President came out, motored across to Minneapolis for luncheon, so that the twin cities might not fall out in jealousy. For luncheon at the Nicollet Hotel, food was served, not speeches. Then the party drove to the State Fair Grounds?neutral territory between the rivalrous twins. No President had been in the vicinity since President Wilson called in 1919. In 1921, Vice President Coolidge spoke at that very spot and met a chilly reception. In spite...