Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed put, as did Senator William Edgar Borah, in Boise, Idaho, after narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., to Sea Island Beach, Ga. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Buenos Aires for the Pan-American Conference. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt...
...than at home, the stockmarket shot up in the heaviest trading since last February. Day after elections, the Dow-Jones industrial stock average climbed nearly 4 points, best day's gain since 1933. Public utility stocks, which had been widely touted as the best method of batting on Alf Landon, declined automatically. Next day, however, while trading on the New York stock exchange swelled to 3,600,000 shares, even the utilities perked up. Day after that the stockmarket paused for breath, having set a new high for Recovery in the third broadest day's trading...
These speculative fireworks were not, as some irreconcilables suggested, a studied Democratic attempt to heap insult on the injury of Alf Landon's defeat. Neither was it a rising vote in favor of the New Deal. It might have been explained by the hopes & fears of Inflation, since the election insured a continuation of the New Deal's cheap money policy. But on one day 14 issues of Government bonds made new highs since issuance-not precisely an inflationary portent. Still another explanation might have been the continuing flood of extra dividends flowing from efforts to escape...
...Alf Landon could console himself last week with the thought that, though his electoral total touched a near-record low, he had at least topped Herbert Hoover's 15,000,000 popular votes of 1932. No such solace was available to the nation's third party candidates and their backers, whose wretched performances at the polls made the Republican fiasco seem a comparative triumph...
...Pink fadeouts there were comforting extenuations. Nominee Browder had campaigned far more strenuously against Alf Landon than for himself, persuading many a Red that he might best serve his cause by a vote for Roosevelt. Nominee Thomas, who got a large non-Socialist protest vote in 1932, could reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose...