Landon lands Republican nomination at Cleveland convention
Gov. Alfred M. Landon captured the Republican nomination on the first ballot in Cleveland with 984 of 1,003 votes and a unanimous show of party unity. The platform pledges economy, farm relief, labor standards, and opposition to the League of Nations.
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Alfred M. Landon
United States
Cleveland
Landon
William E. Borah
Idaho
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Chicago Daily News
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Borah
League of Nations
World Court
John Hamilton
Snell
Alabama
Arizona
Kansas
Mr. Hamilton
Illinois
Lester J. Dickinson
Iowa
Harry Nice
Maryland
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
London
Carl Bachmann
Knox
Republican Nominees and New Deal Campaign Casts
The article discusses Republican nominees Doctor Tolley and Chester C. Davis involved in federal reserve and AAA matters. It notes Davis’s agricultural background, Tolley’s soil expertise, and their roles in shaping New Deal policy. It also covers Alabama campaign results for Luther Patrick and Huddleston, Sir Samuel Hoare’s return to the British cabinet, the Texas centennial exposition in Dallas, and the Senate passage of the $829 million revenue bill with tax provisions.
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Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt
Chester C. Davis
AAA
Davis
Iowa
Grinnell College
Montana Farmer
Howard R. Tolley
Doctor Tolley
United States Supreme Court
Alabama
Luther Patrick
George Huddleston
Patrick
Ninth District
Huddleston
Samuel Hoare
Admiralty
Viscount Mansell
Samuel
House of Commons
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Mediterranean
Hoare
Senate
House of Representatives
Landon and Knox Nominated by Republican Convention
Alfred M. Landon of Kansas was unanimously nominated for president with Frank Knox of Illinois as running mate at the Cleveland convention. The platform urged a sound currency, tariff reform, and no entangling alliances, while Landon’s team emphasized labor, money, and farm policies.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Prairie State
Farley
Susannah
Landon
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago Daily News
Buos
Old Guard
America
Roosevelt
League of Nations
World Court
Congress
Michigan News Roundup From Coast to Coast and Campus
A compilation from Michigan locations reports Lakeview Lightning injuring a man while not burning him. Cadillac approves donating a site for a State Police post pending funds and WPA approval. Ann Arbor notes Michigan graduates see strong job prospects, St Johns forms a Peppermint Growers Association, and Mt. Pleasant reports a Central State Teachers College club leasing land for a camp. Capable aviation items cover a Grosse Ile speed trial and a July Detroit aviation rally, while Alpena marks a birthday milestone of Philip LaRose Sr. Cheboygan plans to salvage a sunken coal freighter, Caro hosts a vast Indian relic collection, East Lansing notes a germ linked to canine illness and vaccine work, and Lansing reports Michigan retail prices up 3 percent in May with potatoes hitting 34 cents a pound and a family diet cost of 7.22 dollars for May.
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St. Johns
Michigan
Mt. Pleasant
Appleblossom Club
Central State Teachers College
Edensville
Tittabawassee
Gapac
Wyla Mae Harrison
Donald Dobbyns
Capac
Grosse Ile
Charles F. Greber
Detroit
Washington
National Aeronautical Association
Lieut. Greber
Grumman
Lansing
National Sportsman Pilot Association
Mackinac Island
Northport Point
St. Tenace
Alpena
Philip LaRose, Sr
Lewis Pake
William Baker
Ovila Robinette
Cheboygan
Georgian Bay
E. J. Laway
M. H. Stuart
Caro
William J. England
England
East Lansing
H. J. Stafseth
Michigan State College
Stafseth
Department of Labor and Industry
Department
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Britain
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Gov. Landon
Italy
Tie Duce
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Ciano
Propaganda
Ferruccio Lantini
Alesandro Lessona
Count Ciano
Juan B. Sacasa
Luis Manuel Debayle
Geronimo Ramirez Brown
Jose Roman Gonzales
Benito Ramiriz
Lorenzo Guerrero
Roberto Gonzalez
Alejandro Sequeira Rivas
Department of Agriculture
Maine
John Hays Hammond
Gloucester
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
H. Rider Haggard
Cecil Rhodes
Mr. Hammond
San Francisco
California
Yale
Mexico
South Africa
Barney” Barnato
Hammond
Paul Kruger
Transvaal
Taft
George V
FTER
France
Popular Front
Leon Blum
Blunt
Te Supreme Court of
Ilinois
Cook County
Carl W. McNeil
Western Electric Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Middle West
American Telephone and Telegraph
Western Electric
Hawthorne Works
Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
League of Nation
League
Assembly
Geneva
EXXAS
Dallas
Texas
Kansan
Herbert Hoover
Alfred Mossman Landon
Resolutions Committee
Republican Party
Post Office
Hoover
Great Public
Calvin Coolidge
Harold B. Barton
Rules Committee
Alaska
Hawaii
District of Columbia
Bertrand Snell
New York
Steiner
Queenie Ethel Clair
Mr. Hoover
Lakeview
George Behrnwald
Cadillac
Ann Arbor
University of Michigan
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