Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabbit, the two major party candidates for President last week coursed hither and yon, frantically nosing crisscross tracks which to their nostrils had a delicious odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds raised their heads and bayed for the delectation of the countryside. Alf Landon's course, starting from Philadelphia, doubled back to Pittsburgh, veered to Newark. N. J., swept into Manhattan (where at the old-fashioned Murray Hill Hotel he met Al Smith for the first time), dashed out to Oyster Bay, L. I., home of Widow Edith Carow Roosevelt, paused...
...shouting that "The bosses of Landon . . . know Landon's whole attempt to fool the American masses is a flop"; a headline, PRO-HITLER STAFF AT HEADQUARTERS OF REPUBLICANS; a column by the New Deal's best syndicated friend, Jay Franklin, predicting a Roosevelt landslide; a cartoon depicting Alf Landon being blindfolded by Samuel Insull...
...After almost 40 years the Hearst crusades have grown stale with custom and the Hearst political influence is uniformly discounted by experienced observers. But, win or lose next week, Publisher Hearst himself is sure of a place in the history of the 1936 campaign. It was he who "discovered" Alf Landon, put him on the nation's front page (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935, et seq.). It was he who originated the Red Issue, won a personal attack from the White House (TIME, Sept. 28). Finally, as ultimate testimony to his symbolic stature in the imaginations and passions...
...Francisco Chronicle, the Se attle Times and the Portland Oregonian have managed to be strongly pro-Landon without being rabidly anti-Roosevelt. Despite the fact that its Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes are Alf Landon's closest advisers, the Kansas City Star has gone so far as to criticize mildly the Republican Nominee's tariff views...
...question of the press's power to influence its readers' votes, a significant commentary last week was that, with the press thus pumping for him by more than 2-to-1, Wall Street betting odds against Alf Landon's election were...