"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Alf M. Landon of Topeka, Kans., and Col, Frank Knox of Chicago, guests at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, paid a 15-minute call on fellow guest Herbert Hoover.
Sixty-three-year-old Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona, was recuperating in a Washington hospital from a case of shingles. Complained disgruntled Senator Ashurst: "It had ever been my hope, if incapacitated, to suffer from some affliction that might be described by high-sounding sesquipedalian words."
Save for a brief road tour in 1931-32, a short stand in 1934, oldtime...
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