Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly shall," replied Alf Landon...
...Manhattan, Jesse Owens announced that he was ready to stump for Alf M. Landon, was quoted as saying: "This country was built on the sweat and blood of the Negro race and this fact hasn't yet been recognized. I believe Governor Landon will recognize it. . . . His election will be good for America and for the people of the colored race. . . . I want to meet Governor Landon personally." Shocked at Owens' ingratitude were Democrats. At Ohio State, Jesse Owens has been drawing $3 per day since February 1935 as a non-working page in the Democratic Legislature...
...most exciting thing that happened to Alf Landon last week was his meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at Des Moines (see p. 13). Before & after that event, the Republican Presidential nominee...
...When Alf M. Landon stopped talking generalities and got down to cases at Buffalo fortnight ago, one of his lustiest blows was aimed at New Deal taxation. "If the major portion of the Government's income," he orated, "is obtained from indirect and hidden taxes-taxes upon such things as food, clothing, gasoline and cigarets-then the main burden falls upon those of small income...
...taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income, on capital stock and on excess profits. These three, the only ones which Alf Landon could possibly reduce if he went to the White House, were not hidden but direct taxes, which he favors...