National Affairs: Mr. Curtis

Hoarse as a crow, his right hand in bandages, Nominee Curtis arrived in Chicago from his Western stumping trip. He had had two days' rest at home, in Kansas, but was still "very, very tired." Nevertheless, he said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest—North Dakota, Minnesota,...

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