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...their homebody wives along, they were frankly delighted at finding themselves the centre of convention interest after all the years in which Eastern Old Guardsmen had treated Kansans like country cousins. Whether Alf Landon became President or not, the Convention of 1936 would be memorable as marking a radical shift in the Republican centre of gravity. "This is one convention," keynoted Landon's curly-headed Hamilton, "where there will be no smoke- filled room nomination...
...While returning from a professional call," reported he in last week's American Medicine, "I stopped for a traffic light. As I reached to shift gears, I saw two hands and two gear shift levers. I was confused for a second, but was brought to my senses immediately by a brilliant play of colors in my right eye. The colors fluttered rapidly, and were not synchronous with the cardiac impulse [heart beat]. They involved the areas receiving the long (red) and the short (purple and violet) light waves. I then knew what had happened, and my only thought...
...with a loyalty which cannot well go unrewarded. The Comptroller Generalship, which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure of 15 more years in Washington, free from all shift of political fortune. But Mississippians who sent Pat Harrison to support a Democratic President of 1918 may yet be told that a Demo-cratic President of 1936 cannot do without...
With Maguire catching, Colwell went back to first, Prouty to left field, and McTernen to right. Adzigian also went to second and Owen to third in an infield shift in the first game...
Meanwhile the wheel horses of British politics took to the public platform to prepare British opinion for the coming shift in foreign policy. From the beginning, one of the most ardent believers in clamping Sanctions on Italy's ambitions was Sir Austen Chamberlain. Last week this gaunt Elder Statesman was on his feet crying...