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Fact was, the railroads were not only incapable of much new building but in many cases found it impossible to finish what they had started before Depression. Last week, when Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's hefty President Samuel Thomas Bledsoe announced the biggest single track-laying job planned by any U. S. railroad in years, his announcement promised no new episode in the railroad epic but a return to polish off one of those left unfinished...
...with accounts of strange political tribes: the Roosevelts, the Sinclairs, the McGroartys; the Hoovers, the Landons, the Borahs. The final hour was at hand to file slates of delegates for California's Presidential primaries to be held May 5. Shortly before it struck came a news flash from Topeka, Kans., bringing Governor Alfred Mossman Landon's last word: He would "neither approve nor repudiate" the slate of delegates named for him. It was followed by a flash from Washington. Senator William Edgar Borah, who, ever since the opening of the campaign, has been trying to force Governor Landon...
...possible defeat by Borah, who had the support of many a follower of Senator Hiram Johnson, would cause Landon to be labeled the Hearst candidate-a label that Governor Landon has been trying to avoid since last December when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka and publicly put his hand upon the Landon shoulder. Not to run would be equally dangerous for Governor Landon. It threatened to drive Publisher Hearst to support a rival candidate. Statesmanlike "Alf" Landon last week solved the problem by doing precisely nothing...
...overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to Kansas City; by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to Pasadena, Calif. There in Caltech's laboratories, where a huge grinding machine has been set up, it will spend some three years acquiring the ideal paraboloid curve in its face. Some time before 1940 it will be installed in its telescope on Palomar Mountain in Southern...
...soon become a mother. When a potent politician, invites press photographers into his home and allows them to picture his private life, everyone realizes that he will soon be a candidate for a bigger & better public job. Two months ago Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas thus opened his Topeka home to news cameramen. Last week pictures were taken of carved teakwood chairs and tables, Chinese paintings and embroideries, lacquered boxes, Oriental screens at No. 2101 Connecticut Ave., Washington. Next day the Press discovered that Senator William Edgar Borah was definitely, openly and finally a candidate for President...