Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edison plant. He lives quietly with his wife (they are childless) in a large stone residence in Llewellyn Park, a private residential section in West Orange. Hard by is the home of his mother, Thomas Edison's second wife, now Mrs. Edward Everett Hughes. Mrs. Hughes publicly supported Alf Landon while her son was supporting President Roosevelt. At 46, with his heavy black hair turning grey, Charles Edison bears a noticeable resemblance to his famed father...
...Roosevelt's promises and policies, at the more & more conservative editorial stand of the Post-Dispatch which has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Last September, the Post-Dispatch jumped the political fence outright, joined the majority of the nation's dailies in favoring the election of Alf M. Landon. Solely responsible for the switch were sardonic Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard and Owner Joseph Pulitzer, a rich, respectable member of the rich, Right-thinking St. Louis Country Club...
...FARLEY and John Daniel Miller Hamilton who are pitting President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Alf M. Landon against each other fall, have one thing in common. Both are seasoned joiners and good Elks, since both have been in politics for a long time. Jim didn't go to college, so he missed joining a Greek Fraternity. John D. M. didn't became a Phi Alpha Delta at Northwestern University in 1916. Curly-haired, youthful, with a smile and a direct manner of speaking as valuable as Jim Farley's handshake, John D. M. Hamilton is better looking than...
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...there was absolutely no respect to be commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor...