Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support, his triumph was as great as that of Gamaliel Harding in 1920. Measured in electoral votes, it was overwhelming. Measured in moral effect it was greatest of all. For a time at least the terrific impact of his victory had knocked the wind out of all opposition. Alf Landon's personal friend William Allen White publicly proclaimed: "It was not an election which the country has just undergone but a political Johnstown flood." On its front page Frank Knox's Chicago News editorially crowned "The President of the whole people of the United States . . . entitled...
...Idaho, Democrats swept everything before them. Franklin Roosevelt beat Alf Landon by nearly 2-to-1; Democrat Barzilla W. Clark swept into the Governorship; to both seats in the House of Representatives Democrats were returned. Only exception was Governor C. Ben Ross, best campaigner on the State Democratic ticket, who ran against William E. Borah for the Senate. Republican Borah -who did not mention Alfred M. Landon in the entire campaign-polled upwards of 125,000 votes, practically the same number as Franklin Roosevelt. Said he afterward: "I anticipate the next six years will be tremendous years."Then he went...
...weeks partly upon the success of M. Blum in persuading Parliament that Mr. Roosevelt is friendly to the French New Deal and has ordered Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to cushion and facilitate the devaluation of the franc (TIME, Oct. 5). Both Paris and Rome had the impression that Alf Landon would have tried to threaten them into resumption of payments on the French and Italian War debts...
Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...expected Nominee Landon to carry Kansas were sure that his onetime campaign manager and private secretary, Will G. West, candidate for Governor and rated one of the State's smartest politicians, would run well ahead of him on the Republican ticket. But when Franklin Roosevelt swept even Alf Landon's home State, he carried a Democrat, Walter A. Huxman, along to fill Alf Landon's chair on Jan. 1. Farm-born near Pretty Prairie, outspoken, aggressive Governor-elect Huxman served on Kansas' State Tax Commission under onetime Governor Harry H. Woodring. Acting Secretary of War Woodring...