Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Topeka, Alf Landon had been up at 5 a. m. Not stopping to shave, he put on a white linen suit with unaccustomed vest, swallowed his breakfast, hurried downtown to meet his agricultural experts. First hitch in his plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most...
...have," returned Alf Landon, "but I got here on time...
According to Minnesota's Governor Petersen, the President once addressed his opponent by saying, "Now, Alf Landon. if you take my place. . . ." It was also reported that the President had given' up trying to eat his hard-frozen dessert of ice cream ball & shredded cocoanut after it had repeatedly skidded out from under his spoon...
...crowd of notables, President Roosevelt turned to Governor Herring, said. "Won't you bring the Governor up closer?" Nominee Landon took his stance by the President's side and the two grinned amiably at each other as flash bulbs flared. The photographs, centring every eye on Alf Landon in the midst of a mass of dark-suited figures, proved that the Republican nominee had performed his master maneuver, whether planned or accidental, when he put on a white suit that morning...
Later it was revealed that Alf Landon, who makes a uniformly excellent impression at close range, had also charmed Franklin Roosevelt. Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell spoke for the President's entourage when he declared: "I want to tell you Landon is a swell...