Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distance telephone calls, no radio news flashes had come in when he went to bed at 11:15. In California they had only begun to count the primary votes cast that day which might, more than a month in advance of the Cleveland Convention, make it virtually certain that Alf M. Landon would be the next Republican nominee for President...
...first serious suggestion in print of Landon-for-President was in an election follow-up story in the Kansas City Journal-Post on Nov. 7, 1934, day after Alf Landon had become the only Republican Governor in the land to be re-elected in that year's Roosevelt landslide. Throughout the winter and spring of 1935 the Landon (Continued on p. 18) candidacy was kept publicly alive only by professional chitchat and an occasional Sunday feature in the newspapers. Meantime a group of Landon neighbors had begun to take the subject seriously in hand...
...Democratic Governor Harry Woodring for re-election in 1932, made a prompt post-election switch to Winner Landon. Managing Editor Roy Roberts, one of Herbert Hoover's best newspaper friends in his days as the Star's able Washington correspondent, had gone to University of Kansas with Alf Landon. The manager of the Stars Kansas bureau, Lacy Haynes, who, as the shrewdest and best-informed political observer in Kansas, is popularly supposed to have dictated to all but one of its Governors since 1920, was an oldtime Landon friend. They, with the Star's President George Longan...
...other states had done likewise, but Governor Landon promptly got to a radio microphone, called the nation's attention to Kansas. Alert for a man who might put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House. William Randolph Hearst sent a flying squad of investigators into Kansas to comb Alf Landon's private and public record. Reporting satisfactorily, they were followed by a flock of ace Hearst writers and the great Landon Boom...
...cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam, who had been ignored in the Hoover slate. Governor Landon, sticking steadfastly to his pose that the nomination must seek him, refused to approve or repudiate the Hearst-Merriam ticket (TIME, April...