POLITICAL NOTES: Stop Landon

For weeks before the Democratic national convention in 1932 the Press boomed with news of the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. In the past fortnight supporters of the Governor of Kansas for the GOPresidential nomination have been encouraged by widespread reports of a "Stop Landon" movement developing among Eastern conservatives.

Massachusetts allows no formal entrants in its Presidential primaries, provides a space on the ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many...

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