REPUBLICANS: Going Places

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford and Son Edsel waited one hour and 25 minutes last week in the Presidential suite of Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. At the end of that time Alf Landon, just in from Toledo, tore himself away from the assembled Michigan Republican leaders, made for the waiting Fords. A politician clutched at the fleeing Governor's coat, whispered, 'You haven't got time for that." Alf Landon shook him off, seized Henry Ford's arm, said, "Come on. Let's go."

They went to the Ford house at Dearborn for luncheon. Thence they drove to Henry...

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