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...about it in a characteristic whirl of action. Without a pause after his day & night labors at the Cleveland convention, the new chairman sped to Chicago, to Topeka, to New York, to Washington; in July swung through New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Back in Chicago, he set up a sketchy national headquarters, bundled his personal staff into a ten-passenger airplane, flew West. In 17 days, during which he averaged three speeches per day and four hours sleep per night, he swept 6,500 miles through 16 States...
...pamphlets, leaflets, dodgers chiefly devoted to broken promises and taxes (TIME, Sept. 14). Within it nestled a special Landon speechwriting group, membership unrevealed. But busy at headquarters were Nominee Landon's onetime personal researchers, Charles Phelps Taft II, Earl Howard Taylor, Ralph West Robey, who were transferred from Topeka when the press spotlighted them as a Landon brain trust (TIME...
...Maine. Last week Nominee Landon had planned to advance his cause by receiving Young Republicans at a grand progressive jubilee in Topeka. Then the GOP high command met in Chicago, got Governor Land on the telephone, held long and earnest conversation. That night the Republican nominee abruptly canceled his Topeka jubilee, startled the nation with his most belligerent statement to date. "I am going to Maine," said he, "to help rededicate that State to the good government for which it has always stood and to participate in the first fighting repudiation at the polls of the kind of government this...
President: Yes, I did. The weather was delightful. I imagine you have been mighty hot out there in Topeka...
...Detoured for some drought inspection of his own while returning to Topeka from Des Moines, chatted with a few farmers, was stopped by pouring rain...