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...eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb, 2, and Nancy Josephine, 3. Mrs. Landon, whose digestion has suffered lately from all the excitement around her home, did not join them. At 8 the Governor set out with his new political secretary and speechwriter, Earl Howard Taylor, onetime associate editor of The Country Gentleman, to walk the eight blocks to Topeka's radio station WIBW, where he and a staff man rehearsed an interview he was going to give to Columbia Broadcasting's Commentator Hans V. Kaltenborn over a nationwide network two days...
...risk defeat in his home state, but bent on having at least a strong voice in the convention, rallied a few potent cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam, who had been ignored in the Hoover slate. Governor Landon, sticking steadfastly to his pose...
...King's income-producing properties are managed by what is in effect a holding company, the Crown Lands Office. Its unsalaried front man is the Minister for Agriculture, now 36-year-old Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, Earl De La Warr and Viscount Cantelupe. The Commission's two potent drudges are Permanent Commissioner Charles Lancelot Stocks and Assistant Commissioner G. P. Best. They pay the Crown Lands monies to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who pays out the Civil List in turn to His Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse...
...Horace Pickering. Titling his picture The Red Octopus, Mr. Pickering interprets Joseph Stalin with red horns and red pointed ears. From Stalin's head extend over the map of the U. S. red tentacles labeled, "League Against War & Fascism," "William Z. Foster," "The Daily Worker" (strangling a factory), "Earl Browder" (strangling the Statue of Liberty), "Herbert Benjamin," "Harry Bridges" (strangling the U. S. Capitol) and "American Student Union...
...great, white stairs of Government House stood the retiring Viceroy, long-jawed, lean Freeman Freeman-Thomas, first Earl of Willingdon. Again 31 guns crashed out as Lord Linlithgow shook hands with Lord Willingdon, went inside for a long talk. Before Lord Linlithgow could become the new Viceroy, the old Viceroy must quit India. This Lord Willingdon proceeded to do next day, accompanied by a send-off precisely paralleling Lord Linlithgow's welcome...