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...Government can and must and will go ahead . . . with winning out through a system of careful, long-range planning. . . . You are not licked." That morning President Roosevelt had got the news of Secretary of War Dern's death, promptly shifted his schedule to attend the funeral in Salt Lake City this week. That meant dropping Minnesota and Wisconsin from his itinerary, postponing for two days his conference in Des Moines this week with seven Western governors, including Kansas' Landon...
Upon receipt of news of Secretary Dern's death, Army guns from Portland to Pearl Harbor boomed the traditional salute at half-hour intervals, 19 blasts at retreat. A train was shrouded to take Secretary Dern's body back to Salt Lake City for burial. At Bismarck, N. Dak., President Roosevelt rearranged his Drought tour to attend the funeral, was obliged to postpone for two days his Des Moines meeting with Governor Landon...
...reporters, boarded a chartered plane in Chicago, set out on a twelve-day trip through 16 States west of the Mississippi. Like a swiftly moving piece upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...
...Government bounty, U. S. silver production rose from 16,742,000 oz. during the first half of 1935 to 29,852,000 oz. during the first half of 1936. To win the silverite West away from the New Deal, the GOP, as Manager Hamilton well knew last week in Salt Lake City, has to promise Western silver producers something to take the place of their Treasury-financed prosperity...
Mark Requa, onetime California Republican National Committeeman, remarked in Salt Lake City that his friend Herbert Hoover is in the market for "a good mine...