Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...
...Governor Landon climbed into the new Packard 120 coupe which he lately bought to replace an old Ford, had his Negro chauffeur drive him home for lunch. At 48 Alf Landon has begun to joke with friends about his growing paunch, but he blames that on his lack of time for as much exercise as he used to get. He always eats light at midday, gives the stream of political writers and politically-minded citizens who have lately been pouring in on him a standard two-course luncheon. When a political correspondent arrived in midafternoon, Nancy Jo and Jack Landon...
...father took the family out of Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy. He had the first tuxedo in town, yet be campaigned successfully to cut the ice cream course from the house menu. He fought hard to have only...
...Chicago Daily News. Yet this sudden burst of horse-consciousness on the part of the Republican publicity men does not mean the G.O.P. is trying to portray its prophets as members of a wealthy and notedly extravagant class. The technique may be wrong but the idea is right:--"Frugal Alf" Landon, "he balanced Kansas' budget", thirty, honest, simple...
...trying to avoid since last December when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka and publicly put his hand upon the Landon shoulder. Not to run would be equally dangerous for Governor Landon. It threatened to drive Publisher Hearst to support a rival candidate. Statesmanlike "Alf" Landon last week solved the problem by doing precisely nothing...