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Friends & Foes. Untraveled Alf Landon has no such multitude of friends throughout the land as Franklin Roosevelt had cultivated before 1932. By the same token, he has few enemies. Candidate Herbert Hoover is reputed to have privately called Candidate Landon "wishy-washy" and "smeared with oil." Candidate Frank Knox has publicly declared Alf Landon a man after his own mind, whom he would gladly support in a Presidential campaign. Candidate William E. Borah last week announced: "If Mr. Knox or Mr. Landon comes to the Cleveland convention with a fair expression of the public that he is their choice...
Contrary to general belief, the royal properties on which the Civil List is virtually a token payment of income belong not to the British Government but solely and legally to the head of the Royal House of England. They include mines, forests, farmlands, beaches and rivers the length & breadth of Britain as well as the King's "rights" on fish taken from his rivers, coal from his Welsh mines. To him belong London's New Gallery and His Majesty's Theatres, Holborn and Criterion restaurants, Carlton Hotel, the southern side of Piccadilly Circus and both sides...
...Forty-Gallon Baptis" gets a token he is going to die at 10 o'clock that night. He makes the event an occasion to prove to his benighted Free-Will neighbors the error of-their ways...
...Herriot was ousted as Premier for insisting that France should pay something on her War debt to the U. S. Last week on a platform in Lyons he did his best to rub his opponents' noses with the fact that by refusing to make even a token payment, France had lost an ally of incalculable value...
...sanctimonious, bulb-eyed Premier William C. Aberhart explained: "We haven't the money. I'm sorry." Fact was that ''Bible Bill" Aberhart had inherited a $150,000,000 load of indebtedness from his predecessors, had only $140,000 with which to make an interest "token payment" on the two defaulted issues. Social Crediteer Aberhart decided to pay no token...