Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loitering along the Nova Scotia coast, lying fog-bound in isolated harbors, seagoing Franklin Roosevelt last week provided the seven correspondents expensively trailing him in a chartered schooner with no more newsworthy facts than that he had clicked on a radio for Alf Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home...
Topeka correspondents who had seen him scribbling away at it on a big, yellow scratchpad were sure that Republican Nominee Alf M. Landon's acceptance speech last week (see above) was his own composition. But they also knew that that crucial declaration had, as a matter of course, been passed on by the nominee's chief political strategists, Managing Editor Roy Roberts and Kansas Manager Lacy Haynes of the Kansas City Star. They knew, too, that, as he grappled with complex national issues, modest, provincial Governor Landon had gladly turned for help on phrases, facts, ideas...
...truths. The Democratic Press found it vague, uninspired and-with its promises of economy plus adequate relief, of peace for business plus war on monopolies, of increased farm exports plus decreased farm imports-as inconsistent as the Republican platform. Impartial observers were impressed by the temperate tone in which Alf Landon attacked New Deal performance, the forthright manner in which he espoused much of the New Deal program.- Citizens who expected a summons to a holy crusade against Franklin Roosevelt and all his works were flatly disappointed...
...moderation if they had previously familiarized themselves with the views of Charles Phelps Taft, public-spirited son of the 27th U. S. President. Before Young Republicans in Topeka one day last December, this Cincinnati lawyer appeared to discuss his civic lessons as they applied to national government. Governor Alf Landon, mightily impressed by the speech, was glad to shake the Taft hand, talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt.* To Governor Landon he sent a copy inscribed: "To the man who fits the blueprint...
...interest the East?" Last week not even modest Mr. Taft could deny that his views were of interest to the whole nation. A frequent Topeka visitor since December, he largely drafted the Landon planks on relief, social security and civil service reform, went to the Cleveland Convention as Alf Landon's personal representative to see that they got into the platform. Few days later he turned up in Topeka as one of the Landon "researchers...