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...particular bit of political strategy also required the President's attention. Aware that partisans were charging that his scheduled speech at Little Rock, Ark. during the Republican Convention at Cleveland was timed to steal radio attention from his political opponents, Franklin Roosevelt had Secretary Stephen Early write to Columbia and National Broadcasting: the President did not want the broadcasting of his speech to interfere with the Convention's time...
...Roosevelt laid his plans for the Republican National Convention. Whether Congress adjourns for good or merely recesses over the convention, the President announced that he would leave Washington the day before the Republicans officially assemble in Cleveland. On the second day of their convention he would be in Little Rock, making a speech on behalf of Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who is up for reelection. Next Presidential stops will be Houston, San Antonio and Dallas where, presumably on the day that the Republicans nominate their candidate, he will address a rally of 40,000 Texans at the Texas...
...Pacific States were dull. Undistinguished were pictures of San Francisco Bay, cod fishermen, miners, deserts and the Rock Island...
Illinois went in for barns, with a dazzling red one by Dale Nichols and another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...
...from other wealthy people, most of whom demanded only that they have the fun of shooting the animals. Three hundred thousand dollars was provided for six expeditions. Painters went along to sketch the settings in color, and photographers to snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves...