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Legionaries: He participated in a home-coming celebration for Topeka's Harry W. Colmery, new National Commander of the American Legion (TIME, Oct. 5), congratulated him on his leadership of "this great patriotic organization...
...Topeka gave Alf Landon a send-off for the first time when he set out last week on his fourth & penultimate campaign tour. Arriving at the railroad station one rainy evening, he found the local branch of the Landon Business Women's League lustily singing We're from Sunny Kansas...
...rose the State Committee's Executive Director John G. Stutz, a Democrat appointed by Governor Landon's Democratic predecessor, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring. Last week the original subject of dispute was overshadowed when Director Stutz complained, in a statement released through Landon campaign headquarters in Topeka, that he had been refused information concerning WPA's administrative costs. His requests for access to the records, said he, had been denied by the State WPAdministrator, ignored by Federal WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Indignantly Director Stutz pointed to an order of last June in which Administrator Hopkins had enjoined...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
...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...