Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said a friend who found Alf Landon in his barn currying a horse: "Guess you're having a better time than if you had got the big job." Said Alf Landon: '"Yes, if I had won I wouldn't have had a chance to curry my horse...
...shows the President at the centre having his picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley. In the right hand corner Herbert Hoover, with pitchfork, smiles at Alf Landon on the brink of a fiery pit containing Al Smith...
...shortcomings of the New Deal he classified in "five great categories": "moral integrity . . . personal liberty . . . financial and economic policies . . . aid for the less fortunate . . . relations to other nations." He saved for his peroration his retort to those, including Alf Landon, who lack enthusiasm for his proposed "intellectual session...
Month ago at the Sinnissippi farm of onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank Orren Lowden, near Oregon, Ill., the two Republican chieftains met and announced that they were "in agreement on every essential problem." This meant that they were not prepared to disagree in public. However, last fortnight in Topeka, Alf Landon called a national radio mass-meeting, spoke his mind on the state of the Union for half an hour (TIME, Nov. 1), without so much as a lukewarm mention for Herbert Hoover's biggest political plan. Last week, addressing a meeting of 3,000 Republicans in Boston...
This Hoover plan is to hold a Republican convention to draw up a platform- just as is done in Presidential elections- before next year's Congressional elections. Some Republican Congressmen, and presumably Alf Landon, fear that votes may be lost locally by a platform assaulting the New Deal. Herbert Hoover brushed this aside...