Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nights before Franklin Roosevelt's eloquent appearance in the Midwest last week (see p. 7), the man whom he snowed under at the polls in 1936. Alf Landon of Kansas, stepped to a microphone in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to do what he could as a challenger. "I know I can't compete with Mr. Roosevelt as a radio artist," said Mr. Landon, but he tried...
...enormous political hoopla was made over a proposed unemployment census which would have furnished a juicy cluster of local census-taking jobs for each Democratic candidate to dangle before his district workers on election day. In the 1936 campaign, charges of corruption in Relief were part of Alf Landon's ammunition. But as items of political history, these "scandals" compare to the great WPA controversy of 1938, as peanuts to a watermelon...
Most surprising upset of the election was the showing of Dublin's Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne, Fine Gael Party member. For 20 years dapper, little "Alf" has ruled the Dublin roost. Last week, his total poll barely gave him the third seat under proportional representation in Dublin's Northeast district as "Dev's" Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Oscar Traynor, took the first, a Cosgravite the second...
...Alf M. Landon of Topeka, Kans., and Col, Frank Knox of Chicago, guests at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, paid a 15-minute call on fellow guest Herbert Hoover...
...Alf Landon, former Republican nominee for President, admitted that he had never heard of Graville Hicks as he arrived in Boston last night...