Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where's your high hat, Alf?" cried...
...polling place, where he was registered as "A. M. Landon, oil and gas business," Alf Landon & wife cast blank ballot after blank ballot for the photographers. On the way to the two-room office with "Alf M. Landon" on the doors of the Citizens National Bank Building, the Nominee had to stop time & again to shake hands with old friends. Most of them called him "Alf" or "Governor," but a few addressed him as "Mr. President...
...over the Landon campaign train in all its travels about the country began to settle over the Landon parlor as the radio announcers kept shouting monotonously: "Roosevelt ahead in New York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead in. . . ." As he had on his train, Alf Landon, smiling, joking, puffing at an old briar pipe, did his best to brighten things up. About 9 p. m. the Florists' Telegraph Association sent in a six-foot composition sunflower as tribute to his "Americanism." "Come on, Theo," cried he to Mrs. Landon...
Sixty newshawks were invited in from the garage for coffee and doughnuts. Alf Landon chatted with them about returns from familiar Kansas precincts until one tactlessly asked how the national figures looked to him. "I'm not sure," he grinned. "I've been talking with people around the house and haven't kept up with the later returns...
...guests had gone and Alf Landon went up to bed. He had told reporters he would have no statement until morning. About midnight, however, Ross Bartley, the Landon publicity man, appeared at the Jayhawk Hotel to hand out copies of the Republican Nominee's telegram of congratulations to Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Already in the Jayhawk they were discussing Alf Landon's chances of getting elected U. S. Senator in 1938, the job his friends really had in mind for him when they began booming him for the Presidency year...