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...TIME (July 13) you stated that Peggy Anne Landon had never had any dates till she entered the University two years ago. I wonder if you haven't been mistaken in this statement. When I was a senior in Topeka High School, one of my best friends dated Peggy Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...shall vote," proclaimed Woodrow Wilson's Assistant Secretary of War Henry Breckinridge of Manhattan, after flying to Topeka for dinner with the G. O. P. nominee, "for Governor Landon and Colonel Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Landon Week | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...Topeka for a three-hour talk with the Republican nominee on farm and foreign trade policies went that voluble New Deal outcast, onetime AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek. Revealing that the Republican platform embraced most of the farm and trade views which he had submitted in pre-Convention memoranda to both Republicans and Democrats, George Peek declared of Alf Landon: "He seems to have a good deal of understanding of these problems, but I intend to take no position until after he has declared his views specifically in his speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Landon Week | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...even a special session of the Kansas Legislature, meeting last week to approve social security amendments to the State Constitution, could budge Nominee Alf M. Landon from his resolve to keep mum on national issues until his acceptance speech in Topeka next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Security & Service | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur Pledge Brown, worked his way across the U. S., partly by passing bad checks and thieving, but mostly by selling his stock article on Matanuska Valley to "at least a dozen newspapers." In November it was printed in the Topeka (Kansas) Capital. Topeka's Capper's Weekly also swallowed it. In December the Kansas City Journal-Post published it. By April Pledge Brown had reached Washington, where the rich and cautious Sunday Star was glad to buy his threadbare yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pledge Brown | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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