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...Bonds like Standard's are called "money bonds," meaning that the price and yield are determined by the state of the money market, not by the state of the borrower's credit. Government bonds are the best example of money bonds. Typical corporate money bonds are Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. general mortgage 4s of 1995, now selling at 114; Chesapeake & Ohio general mortgage 4½'s of 1992, selling at 125; Consolidated Gas of Baltimore general mortgage 4½s of 1954, selling at 123; Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania first & refunding mortgage...
...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...
...correspondent was leaving an hour and a half later. Governor Landon called to the family's Negro maid: "Call up and tell 'em to saddle Cy, Myrtle.'' Motoring out to Topeka's democratic Hunt Club, the Governor went for a brisk seven-mile canter. At 6:30 p. m. the four Landons sat down to their usual big dinner. Missing was 18-year-old Peggy Anne, the Governor's daughter by his first wife, who is a junior at Kansas University. As usual, Nurse McCue ate with the family. After dinner the Governor retired...
...blow but a blessing in most observers' eyes was the California vote to Governor Landon. Ever since Publisher Hearst took up the Landon candidacy, and especially since he and his entourage descended on Topeka last December in two private cars and a chartered Pullman, Hearst support has been a prime Landon problem...
Last June in Topeka, Kans. Federal agents found one of the purloined certificates squashed in the straw-hat lining of a minor pugilist named Melvin Smith. With this evidence to provide the scent, the Federal operatives relentlessly followed a tortuous trail to Manhattan, to California, to Florida, back to Manhattan, to the Bahamas. Last week, in Manhattan again, the agents came to a full stop. Eight thieves had been put under lock & key, $310,000 of the $590,000 recovered. No. 1 man, whom the G-Men called "one of the shrewdest security thieves in the country," was a shifty...