Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into Portland. Governor Brann was at the station to greet him, hand him a Maine fishing license. A whooping torchlight parade escorted him to the Municipal Stadium. There, a thick, cold mist had wet the folding chairs of his 15,000 auditors. Stepping out in his new fighting role, Alf Landon kept warm by shaking his clenched fist, pounding his reading desk with unaccustomed belligerency. His audience, chilled and uncomfortable as the one in Buffalo last month, was equally cool in response to his oratory. Only an occasional burst of applause or cheers interrupted the Republican nominee as, with...
Meantime Republicans were concentrating their energies in pointing out to Democrat Brann's Republican friends that votes for him would vastly injure Alf Landon in the nation. Their new slogan: "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal." Indignantly the Governor summoned reporters, barked: "The New Deal is not an issue in this campaign. This is a State campaign...
...vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon...
...tour, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Frank Knox arrived one day last fortnight in Allentown, Pa. Having asserted within the week that Franklin Roosevelt was leading the U. S. toward Communism and that the nation would be better off today if it had had no Government at all since 1932, Alf Landon's First Mate proceeded to continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people between liberty and security. . . . The present Administration...
...Governor Alfred E. Smith. In 1928 Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated him for Governor. After that "General" Ottinger, who enjoys a tall weak highball, spent his time propagandizing for Repeal. Keeping a finger in national politics, he organized a Landon-for-President movement in Manhattan long before the conventions, visited Alf M. Landon in Topeka before his nomination. Unimpressed by the Ottinger "Landon Clubs" John Hamilton pointedly neglected them when he organized the Landon pre-convention campaign in New York...