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Embarrassed Tribune. Most editors, although they may have disapproved the secrecy in which Franklin Roosevelt had conducted his negotiations, praised the trade itself as a necessary defense measure. A few (including the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Topeka Capital} condemned the sale, but in milder phrases than the Post-Dispatch...
...hand at the late Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend a week in Topeka, Kans. painting Candidate Alf Landon. The Tribune held first rights to the picture, but the artist retained the copyright, which enabled him to charge the Republicans $1,500 for using it as their official campaign portrait. In 1938 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to paint General John Joseph Pershing...
...Republican nomination in Philadelphia had been preparation for his speech. The polls had indicated that he would win the election if it were held now-but the polls had shown Alf Landon leading immediately after his nomination, and after Landon's weak and unimaginative acceptance speech at Topeka, the polls had shown his steady decline. Wendell Willkie's ease and self-confidence had made it plain that his campaigning would be colorful, his personal appearances could carry...
Mousy Mr. Landon sniffed the smell of cat. If this kind of thing kept on, G. O. P. leadership would be captured by the New Deal. Mr. Landon gnawed over the situation with Ohio's Favorite Son Robert A. Taft, in Topeka on tour. After five hours of hard discussion, Mr. Landon called in reporters, came out flatly against a Third Term, denounced coalition as a political trick. Feeling easier in his mind, he entrained for Chicago and the East...
...White House Mr. Landon's statement was digested. Presently Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson. White House secretary, telephoned Topeka to call off the lunch. Mr. Landon was finally found in Chicago. He was told that the White House luncheon was off. Mr. Landon allegedly said he wasn't hungry anyway...