Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he reached Des Moines for his meeting with Alf Landon (see col. 3), President Roosevelt had seen the worst of the Drought. Rolling East next day into the mild Drought belt, he stopped at Hannibal, Mo. to help dedicate a Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi. At Springfield, Ill. for Drought talks with Illinois officials, a telephone talk with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau gave him occasion to declare: "The obligations of the Government-of the United States-are on a sounder basis of credit than ever before in history...
...visit the State Fair, three hours at the Indianapolis Athletic Club for luncheon and a Drought conference with the Governors and Senators of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. The fact that he did not get the GOPresidential nomination enabled Michigan's Senator Vandenberg to be less circumspect than Alf Landon had been at Des Moines. Before entering the conference, Senator Vandenberg remarked: "It's been dry in Michigan, but we only knew casually it was a Drought until this trip." Emerging, he reported on results: "We accomplished a mutual exchange of congenialities." Heading for Nebraska, the Michigan Senator...
...where the conferees were to confer. Governor Herring removed political photographs, even hid a bronze bust of the President. "Of course," conceded he, "every time the President or Governor Landon takes off his hat there is some political effect." But so far as appearances were concerned, Franklin Roosevelt and Alf Landon were doggedly determined to pretend that no such thing as a Presidential campaign was going...
Back in the Kansas capital, where he planned to stay until his drought conference with President Roosevelt this week, Alf Landon released a press statement: "I return to Topeka deeply gratified with my first trip of the 1936 campaign. . . . Everywhere, despite differences in geography, the people are undoubtedly interested in good government. . . . This is as it should be. It is the American...
Ever since Publisher William Randolph Hearst visited Governor Alf Landon in Topeka last December, found the Kansas candidate to his liking and ordered his newspaper chain to support him full blast, there has been a Hearst issue in the 1936 Presidential campaign.* Not until last week, however, did the Democratic high command choose to bring this two-edged issue out of the political shadows, use it directly against the Republican nominee...