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...would be required than is available." "Kansas Coolidge." Managers of Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas now claim that their candidate will go to the Republican National Convention at Cleveland in June with at least 182 pledged votes. Last week Governor Landon took the occasion of the festivities at Topeka commemorating 75 years of Kansas Statehood to deliver his most pretentious address to date on national issues...
...appellation of Alf M. Landon might prove as distasteful to fastidious voters in 1936 as J. Cal Coolidge and Herb Hoover would have been in 1924 and 1928 (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week Aspirant Landon arrived at the same conclusion by a different route, let it be known around Topeka that, "perhaps I shall have to learn to adopt my christened name. ... If I stuck to 'Alf I am afraid some critics might think I was doing so for political effect...
Most spectacular Topeka arrivals, aptly symbolizing the kind of backing every Presidential hopeful needs, were two private cars and a chartered Pullman which rolled into the railroad yards of the Great Economizer's capital last week. From one private car descended New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block. From the Pullman descended New Deal-hating Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who arrived to look for the first time on the homely face of the man he began edging toward the White House three months ago. With "The Chief" was his Columnist Arthur Brisbane. From the other private car descended the editor...
...Governor Landon's 25% reduction of State salaries in 1933, headlined: LANDON SAVES $100,000,000. "They are beating a path to the door of the Kansas Governor," cried Universal Service, "who has lifted the burden from his people. Financiers, economists, authors, writers and statesmen have poured into Topeka in endless procession. . . . Taxpayers from the Atlantic to the Pacific have besieged Landon with requests to come and tell 'how Kansas has done...
...they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad into New Mexico and served on its early board of directors. Last week his 75-year-old son, onetime (1897-1906) Governor of New Mexico, gave further proof of Otero vitality when he offered, in the first volume of his reminiscences, a book that is often...