Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell 'em, Alf!", a hoarse voice shouted...
...hours later 20,000 people seated in the stands of the State Fair Grounds heard Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, introduce Alf Landon. The candidate however was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly great spotlights sought out the west gate of the race track. Riding down the beam came Alf Landon in the tonneau of his car, waving to the crowd. In a moment he was on the platform. When a five-minute demonstration had subsided he began...
...Moines speech was strictly agricultural. Alf Landon told his listeners what he would bid for the farm vote against the bids hastily and simultaneously made last week by the New Deal. Applause was more frequent than in most Landon speeches. When he said of the New Deal farm program, "like the automobile manufacturers, the Administration believes in bringing out a new model every year," he got laughter as well as cheers. Next day he lunched with State GOP Chairman Carl Cook, 300 newspaper editors and 99 farmers, dined that evening with Cartoonist "Ding" Darling...
...ballots on both parties, it was the nation's greatest single political force, vigilantly alert for "un-Americanism" as it packed Congress with its members. A fellow-member, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was already in the White House and another would take his place if Alf M. Landon should win. History owed the Legion four presidents more...
...York City won next year's convention with the slogan"March Up Fifth Avenue Again in 1937." Unanimously chosen, the Legion's new commander was a sturdy, dark-haired, 45-year-old Topeka, Kans. corporation lawyer named Harry Walter Colmery, who, like Topeka's Alf Landon, is a Pennsylvania-born Republican. A Wartime aviator who has made the Legion his prime avocation, Commander Colmery declared last week:"Our danger lies in our own apathy, coupled with the fact that we have a tendency now and then to stick our nose into other people's business instead...