Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well on her way to becoming the best publicized young woman in the U. S. last week was Peggy Anne Landon, 19, Alf Landon's daughter by his late first wife...
...Alf Landon himself once made significant news when for the first time in the 1936 campaign he played the politician's trick of picking up a rival's catch phrase, giving it an ironic twist. Planning to stop at a Greeley, Colo. rodeo on his way back to Topeka for a special session of Kansas' Legislature this week, the Republican nominee was told that he would be driven around Greeley in a landau once owned by Mrs. Horace ("Baby Doe") Tabor. "A landau," smiled he, "just a horse & buggy for a horse & buggy candidate...
Most of the time Alf Landon was simply having fun and, except when he was having fun in a trout stream, Daughter Peggy Anne was never far from his side or from a camera. Even an illiterate could have learned, by following last week's news pictures (see cuts), that Peggy Anne Landon: 1) sat by a campfire with her father; 2) posed on a porch rail with her father; 3) ate a picnic supper with her father; 4) tossed snowballs with her father; 5) rode horseback with her father; 6) walked out on a jutting mountain ledge with...
...mother-in-law, three children and nurse climbed into a private railroad car furnished by a Union Pacific official, rolled off toward Colorado. Two Pullmans carried the Press. At every stop there were several hundred proud Kansans waiting to cheer the second Kansan ever nominated for the Presidency.- "Hyah, Alf!" cried they as Nominee Landon appeared on the platform, grinning and waving, leaning down to pump outstretched hands. "It's mighty nice of you to come down to the station," drawled he to some. With others he exchanged news about the wheat crop or the grasshopper plague. By bedtime...
...Pudgy Alf Perry, last year's winner, got 311, finished 16th, next to last...