Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permission to increase the number of farmers on drought relief from 90,000 to 150,000. Next to bring Drought to his doorstep were Louis J. Taber and Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week at Bismarck...
Since his nomination for the Presidency in June Alf Landon had appeared just once in the national eye. That was on the hot July evening he made his safe & sane acceptance speech in Topeka. Since then his prolonged absence from the headlines had prompted the pressagents of the Democratic National Committee to chide the pressagents of the Republican National Committee with having failed to mention the GOPresidential nominee for a whole week. Undisturbed by this critical clamor over his whereabouts, Governor Landon stayed on at Estes Park, nursed a cold that left him a painful trace of pleurisy...
...campaign was off in a burst of cheers. A few minutes later the nominee's numerous aides and advisers were in consternation when it was discovered that the man in charge of baggage had left standing on the La Salle platform a small bag containing the manuscripts of Alf Landon's speeches...
Aside from a one-day trip to his home in Independence to vote in the Kansas primary, Alf M. Landon's chief interest last week was the Drought which Secretary of Agriculture Wallace gloomily admitted is now the worst in U. S. history. Since by the Kansas Constitution Governor Landon could not aid needy farmers with State funds, he set out to make others do the job. Through his efforts. Western railroads cut their fares one-third on hay and one-half on other feed shipped in for starving stock. The Santa Fe Railroad halved its tariff on water...
...Topeka excited newshawks asked Alf Landon if he would attend. "Well," said one, "the magician has pulled another white rabbit out of the hat." Governor Landon started to smile, quickly thought better of it. Said he gravely: "If there is any meeting anywhere at any time of benefit to Kansas, I will attend. . . . My work as Governor of Kansas comes ahead of anything else I am doing...