Stop Landon Movement Remains Strong at GOP Convention
The talk of a stop Landon push persists Friday as Borah allies blast Landon’s New Deal ties. Kansas delegates wear sunflowers while William Allen White mediates, and George H. Moses says the convention will not be steamrolled, keeing momentum on the second ballot.
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Cleveland
Landon
Kansas
Bachmann
Roosevelt
WPA
Schwellenbach
Wash
Senate
Borah
William Allen White
Emporia
Kan
White
Platform Committee
London
George H. Moses
New Hampshire
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Knox
Explore Mind Q A From Dr Wiggam 1936
A Cedar Rapids Gazette excerpt presents Dr Wiggam discussing environment versus heredity in success, stage fright origins, and gender wage issues. It cites Lorimer Osborn Taussig Joslyn and notes a planned booklet by Sadie Myers Shellow. Copyright 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Lorimer
Frederick Osborn
Taussig
Joslyn
America
Sadie Myers Shellow
Dr. Wiggam
Cedar Rapids
Confederate veteran at 96 aims for two more children
George Isaac Hughes, who fathered children at 94 and 96, says he wants two more before he dies. The 96 year old, his 28 year old wife, and 6 1/2 pound Mary Gertrude welcomed the latest baby as Dr. Charles Duffy assisted. Hughes believes women should have children and that the race must continue.
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Newbern
N. C
George Isaac Hughes
Hughes
Charles Duffy
Mary Gertrude
Farmer drives birds from grain fields on platform
A Sumatran farmer climbs a high platform and uses hoots and yells to frighten flocks from his fields of grain, keeping birds away as crops grow.
Schedules and travels amid early June 1926 regional notes
Mr and Mrs A N Slaby visit Portland and other Pacific coast points to visit relatives. Joseph Klinsky heads to New York before sailing to Czechoslovakia for a Sokol festival. Mrs J M Dinwiddie and Mrs F W Damour return from Atlantic City where they attended the General Federation of Women's Clubs convention. Miss Landall departs for Cheyenne after an honored farewell. Local markets report shifts in wheat corn oats rye and hay. hens eggs hogs steers and lambs prices vary by locale.
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A. N. Slaby
Portland
Ore
Pacific Coast
Joseph Klinsky
New York City
Czechoslovakia
J. M. Dinwiddie
F. W. Damour
Atlantic City
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Dorothy Lundall
Winter Temple
Miss Landall
Cheyenne
Wyo
Edward Aplin
Salt Lake City
Jones and Douglas
Jennings Crawford
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Germany
W. G. Haskell
O. W. Lyman
Los Angeles
E. C. Clark
Cedar Rapids Automobile Club
George Stuart
George L. Rothrock
J. L. Bever, Jr
Louis J. Baerthel
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Kansan
New Deal
Carl Bachmann
PWA
Dorothy Thompson
United States
THE
C. B. Hamilton
Denver
Montrose
James H. Crosby
Excelsior Springs
Mark Brodie
Miles Stepan
Kresge’s
Iowa
Kresge
Silkcrest
Rayon Taffeta
Dols
Batistes
Ai Ay S
Weuwe
Meg
Dimity
Voile
Batiste
Eta
Styles
Ag Rugs
Bes
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