Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What did he think of Alf Landon...
Notable if not definitive is Editor White's account of how a group of Kansas editors and oilmen who had grown up together ran Alf Landon's pre-convention campaign which began "all hilarious and haphazard, all country town stuff . . . an amiable, neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck...
...about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish...
From the Class of 1911, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Class of 1904 gets many a brickbat. Seventy-five percent declare they will vote for Alf M. Landon this year. As a loyal alumnus, Author Tunis finds that fact painful. "Whence," he asks, "this strange, almost fanatical hatred of a fellow Harvardman...
...sudden, are fabulous and some of them are real. Dean of the gold mining business is old Judge John W. Haussermann, who went to the Philippines 38 years ago as a second lieutenant of the 20th Kansas regiment and returned last July as Republican National Committeeman to hear Alf Landon accept his Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along since 1909 it did not get into the big money until after 1926 when...