Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a fire-engine lolloping home from a blaze, the Landon campaign special last week retired in leisurely fashion from New England whither it had gone for the Maine election (TIME, Sept. 21). First, motoring to Nashua, N. H. to board his train, Alf Landon stopped at the roadside to buy a 25? basket of apples, saying tactfully, "I have heard so much about your New England apples." Ignorantly he picked a basket of handsome Gravensteins thereby causing natives, who think their Mclntoshes tastier, to raise their eyebrows...
...crowd cheered as Susanna, lured by several lumps of sugar, finally lifted her swaying trunk to the candidatorial hand. Mr. Landon shook it heartily. Susanna snorted. Boasted Nominee Landon as his train drew out: "She knew me. I distinctly heard her say 'Are you Alf Landon...
Riding to Worcester, Mass., Alf Landon had the company of New Hampshire's H. Styles Bridges (see p. 15), of Massachusetts Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (see p. 14), of Publisher Frank E. Gannett. Another publisher, Paul Block, had asked and received permission to join the nominee. As the special paused in Worcester's railroad yards, Alf Landon appeared on the rear platform of his private car. Meanwhile, up in front trainmen had uncoupled the special's engine and baggage car. Publisher Block, who is a great & good friend of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, had unexpectedly arrived...
Still nursing that grievance was "General" Ottinger when he turned up one night last week to speak at the Republican Club of Astoria. L. I. Presumably repeating a conversation with the nominee, he croaked: "Governor Landon believes prohibition is a State and not a National issue. Alf M. Landon may not take a drink in a Dry State but he will in a Wet State...
Pained by the irregularity with which the question of Nominee Landon's drinking habits had been brought into the open, Republican spokesmen in Topeka let it be known that Alf M. Landon 1) "drank" as a young man; 2) now drinks only an occasional beer; 3) keeps neither beer nor liquor in the icebox or pantry of the Executive Mansion of Dry Kansas; 4) might possibly take a highball in a Wet State although he has often refused one; 5) regards drinking "tolerantly...