Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are two Alf M. Landons. There is the Governor Landon of Kansas. That is the man I know. Then there is the Candidate Landon. . . . Candidate Landon is running for the Presidency on an anti-New Deal platform, but Governor Landon ran for a second term for the Governorship of Kansas on a 100% New Deal platform...
Instead of a sweltering day in Topeka, it was a cool evening in Chicago. Instead of a rural throng of picnicking Kansans on the State House lawn, it was an urban crowd of 20,000 packed into Chicago's enclosed Stadium.* Instead of the flat prairie voice of Alf M. Landon, it was the boom of Frank Knox. But the difference was more than a difference of weather, crowd, voice...
Hardly had Nominee Alf Landon's acceptance speech been broadcast (TIME, Aug. 3) than Franklin Roosevelt's ace political pressagent, Charles Michelson, began to plan to put this old political maxim into effect. For the occasion he arranged an hour's nation-wide radio hookup. For the job of demolishing Republican Landon he shrewdly picked six of the President's official inferiors and the Governor's official equals-six Democratic Governors, from six States geographically selected to enfilade Kansas from assorted distances and directions...
...speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee and his campaign strategists only on relief and social security. But if Alf Landon moves into Charlie Taft's boyhood home in Washington next January, he will be indebted to that young counsellor of moderation for a lot more than an ordinary researcher's facts & figures...
...referring to his helpers, but the fact remains that he, no less than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, has been compelled to acknowledge that a Presidential program for the modern U. S. must be the product of many minds. With no other statement in You And I-And Roosevelt can Alf Landon agree more heartily than with Charlie Taft's observation: "The truth is, nothing which concerns this nation of 120,000,000 people can ever be simple again...