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...tracks, A moment later the masked man was in the room brandishing a revolver. Billy thought the man was crazy or drunk when he made exaggerated gestures with the revolver, shouted: "Don't you kids try anything, because I'm wearing a bullet-proof vest." As he muttered incoherently, the man stepped up to Billy, searched his pockets...
Meantime in Topeka, Alf Landon had been up at 5 a. m. Not stopping to shave, he put on a white linen suit with unaccustomed vest, swallowed his breakfast, hurried downtown to meet his agricultural experts. First hitch in his plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most...
...harried estate executors a rehearing, implicitly approved was the first double state death-tax payment on record. To Camden rushed New Jersey's Inheritance Tax Bureau Supervisor William D. Kelly to pick up a $15,620,793.45 check from the disconsolate executors. Hastily stuffing it in his vest pocket, he bustled off to Trenton, triumphantly deposited...
...Republicans eager to lick the New Deal, any bandwagon was a terrible temp tation. The angry, selfish old men of the political sea could not control their follow ers. Charles D. Hilles, boss of New York Republicanism, arrived, for the first time in years, without his delegation in his vest pocket. Fortnight ago one of Mr. Hilles' four delegates-at-large, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, brisk wife of swank Long Island's Congressman "Bob" Bacon, announced that the women vice chairmen of most of New York's Republican county committees were for Landon and that New York...
...Hans was to be Tenor Mario Chamlee, who sang under the old-time Metropolitan regime.' Surprise came at the performance when Basso Louis D'Angelo, long confined to minor roles, emerged as a blustering comic. D'Angelo was the ubiquitous, bewhiskered marriage broker, with the flowered vest, the gaudy watch chain, the inseparable red umbrella. The stammering, half-witted Wenzel was Tenor George Rasely, a native of St. Louis, with a radio reputation and many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made an appearance, had scarcely stuttered a line before the audience accepted him, started...