Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct," and the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his broadcasting license. Undaunted, Brinkley leaped into the Governorship campaign on a "vindication ticket," polling 183,000 votes on a write-in ballot. In 1932 and 1934 he again aspired to the Governorship, but was badly beaten both times by Alf Landon...
Among Republicans, Thomas Edmund Dewey rose from 27% (before the Hines conviction-see below) to 50%; Michigan's Vandenberg with 15% kept second place, ahead of Ohio's Taft (13%). Herbert Hoover piled up 5%, sped past Alf Landon to capture fourth place...
Immediate action on proposals of Cordell Hull and Alf M. Landon for close academic as well as political cooperation with Pan-American countries was taken last night when a committee of seven Undergraduates was formed to raise money for 15 exchange scholarships at Harvard...
...Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa Clara nosed into the locks of the Panama Canal, Cordell Hull debarked to pay tribute to Panama's President Juan Demostenes Arosemena. Delegate Alf M. Landon got off to pay non-partisan tribute to Cordell Hull: "The good neighbor policy has been made a realistic policy instead of a phrase to catch the imagination...
...woods are full of Republican candidates," said Alf M. Landon last week before sailing from Manhattan as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference at Lima, "but here's a story for you. I think the outstanding Democratic candidate is the man [Herbert Henry Lehman] who has just been elected for the fourth time as Governor of the great State of New York. I don't see how the Democrats can pass up a man who has been elected Governor four times...