Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as Franklin Roosevelt began last week to take an interest in active campaigning (see p. 11). Alf Landon set out from Topeka on his third campaign trip. Before the trip was over it looked to several observers as if Governor Landon, too, had suddenly decided to enter the campaign. Instead of delivering temperate generalities such as he has in most previous appearances, he made three major speeches, each devoted to a single issue, each making a strong bid for support in the region where it was delivered...
...York City won next year's convention with the slogan"March Up Fifth Avenue Again in 1937." Unanimously chosen, the Legion's new commander was a sturdy, dark-haired, 45-year-old Topeka, Kans. corporation lawyer named Harry Walter Colmery, who, like Topeka's Alf Landon, is a Pennsylvania-born Republican. A Wartime aviator who has made the Legion his prime avocation, Commander Colmery declared last week:"Our danger lies in our own apathy, coupled with the fact that we have a tendency now and then to stick our nose into other people's business instead...
...from Topeka rose a terrific bleat from Governor Landon's handlers. Strongly they implied that Nominee Roosevelt had anted out of turn, anticipating the Republican Nominee's first square-off at the farm issue scheduled to be delivered at Des Moines 48 hours later. Hastily rushed to the press was Governor Landon's own crop insurance plan, to wit: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention." Two nights later at the Des Moines fair grounds, the Republican nominee laid down chip-by-chip his full bid for the agricultural vote...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated him for Governor. After that "General" Ottinger, who enjoys a tall weak highball, spent his time propagandizing for Repeal. Keeping a finger in national politics, he organized a Landon-for-President movement in Manhattan long before the conventions, visited Alf M. Landon in Topeka before his nomination. Unimpressed by the Ottinger "Landon Clubs" John Hamilton pointedly neglected them when he organized the Landon pre-convention campaign in New York...
Pained by the irregularity with which the question of Nominee Landon's drinking habits had been brought into the open, Republican spokesmen in Topeka let it be known that Alf M. Landon 1) "drank" as a young man; 2) now drinks only an occasional beer; 3) keeps neither beer nor liquor in the icebox or pantry of the Executive Mansion of Dry Kansas; 4) might possibly take a highball in a Wet State although he has often refused one; 5) regards drinking "tolerantly...