Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most observers would have been less taken aback by the Republican nominee's moderation if they had previously familiarized themselves with the views of Charles Phelps Taft, public-spirited son of the 27th U. S. President. Before Young Republicans in Topeka one day last December, this Cincinnati lawyer appeared to discuss his civic lessons as they applied to national government. Governor Alf Landon, mightily impressed by the speech, was glad to shake the Taft hand, talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt...
...mediator of Toledo's Electric Auto-lite Co. strike two years ago, Charlie Taft inquired: "What is there about an Ohio lawyer to interest the East?" Last week not even modest Mr. Taft could deny that his views were of interest to the whole nation. A frequent Topeka visitor since December, he largely drafted the Landon planks on relief, social security and civil service reform, went to the Cleveland Convention as Alf Landon's personal representative to see that they got into the platform. Few days later he turned up in Topeka as one of the Landon "researchers...
...blame accrues to the G. O. P.'s strategy on Nov. 3. Yet smart newshawks who compared the tone of Nominee Landon's acceptance speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee and his campaign strategists only on relief and social security. But if Alf Landon moves into Charlie Taft's boyhood home in Washington next January, he will be indebted to that young counsellor of moderation...
...Topeka all the Landon advisers except Ralph Robey, who lives at the Jayhawk Hotel where the others have their offices, are housed next door to the Executive Mansion. Hard-working and closemouthed, they are not seen much outside home, office or State House. Valiantly doing their bit to dispel the impression that Nominee Landon has copied the Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention...
Ralph West Robey is 35 and a bachelor, handsome enough to have kept Topeka's young women in a flutter since his arrival. He advises Nominee Landon on banking and finance. Born in tiny Masontown, W. Va., Ralph Robey learned his economics in Indiana and Columbia Universities, has since expounded his views in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Evening Post, Washington Post and as banking instructor in Columbia's School of Business. An acquaintanceship with Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley put him on the fringe of the Roosevelt brain trust in 1932, but since the Bank...