Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure of the League's loyalty to Nominee Roosevelt was its violent opposition to Nominee Landon. "God help the American people," roared John Lewis, "if all they have to depend on in the future is that degree of consideration which will come from this little man out in Topeka, Kans., who has no more conception nor idea of what ails America or what to do about it than a goat herder in the hills of Bulgaria." A significant prophecy by President George Berry: "There will be a new political alignment before the 1940 election. I conceive it important that...
...Topeka excited newshawks asked Alf Landon if he would attend. "Well," said one, "the magician has pulled another white rabbit out of the hat." Governor Landon started to smile, quickly thought better of it. Said he gravely: "If there is any meeting anywhere at any time of benefit to Kansas, I will attend. . . . My work as Governor of Kansas comes ahead of anything else I am doing...
Instead of a sweltering day in Topeka, it was a cool evening in Chicago. Instead of a rural throng of picnicking Kansans on the State House lawn, it was an urban crowd of 20,000 packed into Chicago's enclosed Stadium.* Instead of the flat prairie voice of Alf M. Landon, it was the boom of Frank Knox. But the difference was more than a difference of weather, crowd, voice...
Hard on the heels of Governor Landon's notification party in Topeka, WPA men met in Topeka to plan a relief program for Kansas' 27 drought counties. This week the Department of Agriculture upped its drought estimates to include 607 counties in 17 states. In Washington the Crop Reporting Board gloomed that the Great Drought of 1936 was about as severe as the Great Drought of 1934, that pasture land was only 44.7% of normal...
...Presidential Candidate Alfred Mossman Landon of Topeka, gets osteopathic treatments regularly once a week."- Anonymous Osteopath at the AOA convention last week...