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...briefly attend a Missouri Democratic Convention. The next day he was to arrive at Topeka where Harry Wood ring, Democratic Governor of Republican Kansas, would be his host, give him a dinner at the executive mansion. At the State Capitol Nominee Roosevelt is to deliver the first of four full-length speeches on the trip. He will tell Governor Woodring, Senator McGill, James A. Reed, Governor Murray of Oklahoma and Governor Bryan of Nebraska?a critical lot?his solution of the farm problem...
Mills & Tinfoil First full-length Republican campaign speech was delivered by Secretary Mills in Boston. Excerpts: "Tonight we're going to take off some of the tinfoil and look at the facts. ... I challenge Governor Roosevelt to state specifically what the present Administration has failed to do in this emergency and what steps he would have taken. ... In the face of the shocking system of government existing in New York City, Governor Roosevelt's failure to clean up his own party and assert his moral leadership bars him-honest, amiable and attractive gentleman that he is-from spiritual...
...rabble-rousing "forgotten man" speech, Mr. Smith at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington answered it: "I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses." Mr. Smith also supplied the country with a full-length platform on debt revision, pub lic works, taxation, economy, Prohibition. He was vividly acclaimed for straight thinking, plain speaking. As his popularity rose, he heard on all sides that he and he alone could win the election. The demand for his nomination reached a climax fort night ago when...
...tabs of his soft collar. Only ladies of the diplomatic corps were in low-cut evening gowns, only they wore jewels. Hostess Molotov, after careful thought, had done up her light brown hair in a knot at the back of her head, wore a black gown with full-length sleeves and a narrow white collar. As the orchestra, perched on a balcony of the ballroom, struck up a fox trot, the 500 guests paused awkwardly, looked questions at each other. Officially the All Union Communist Party frowns with Dictator Stalin upon dancing...
...first full-length biography of "Old Man" Scripps, founder of chain-journalism in the U. S., appeared last month.* Its author, Gilson Gardner, longtime Washington correspondent for Scripps and his frequent companion aboard the Ohio, had every facility for making it an authentic portrait, including the insistence of his late employer that...