Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spellbinder, Alf M. Landon did his most effective Kansas campaigning by putting on his oil-field breeches and windbreaker, climbing into his automobile, dropping in at country stores and farmhouses with a smiling, "I'm Alf Landon,'' sitting down for a talk about crops, weather and politics. Last week his first vacation trip in three years gave Alf Landon his first chance to display his close-range charm as Republican Presidential nominee...
This was generally assumed to mean that the dissident Democrats would vote, and perhaps campaign, for Alf M. Landon. But by the time their telegram, in preparation since March 9, had been made public, there were two standards to which Al Smith & Co. could rally...
...Michael Curley, broke the tradition by driving her automobile into the Yard behind her father's as he arrived for the ceremonies. An official quickly caught Mrs. Donnelly, led her out. John J. Appel of Teaneck, N. J. found in his bungalow a 15-lb. snapping turtle with "Alf Landon" painted on its back. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lynchburg, Va.'s city charter, the U. S. Treasury consented to issue coins bearing the likeness of Virginia Senator Carter Glass, who will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first...
...crowd yelled for Mrs. Landon. Her husband pushed her up to the microphones. "I leave the talking to the Governor, but I wish you all . . ." she began, then she too choked up. "I can't talk!" cried she and rushed back to the support of Alf Landon...
Whether or not he is elected 33rd President of the U. S., squinty-smiling Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas was last week indelibly imprinted upon his countrymen's memory as The Man Who revived the tune Oh! Susanna as a national theme song. In the course of six days at Cleveland, bands at the Republican National Convention played Oh! Susanna 1,800 times by official count. Into a class with The Sidewalks of New York and California, Here I Come passed the old banjo ballad written by Stephen Foster nearly 100 years ago and first sung into...