Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey, who has the Republican nomination completely sewed up, stands the best chance in twenty years to walk into the Albany State House without even bothering to campaign. When 1944 rolls around, he will be a ready-made Presidential candidate. With the paternal blessings of Herbert Hoover and Alf Landon, and with support from Westbrook Pegler, the nation's most widely read columnist, Dewey will be the most seasoned piece of 1944 Republican timber...
...Third in the race was tempestuous Senator Clyde Reed, who had gone back home, hopping mad over the closed shop and union initiation fees at Kansas war plants, to run on a one-plank platform: "fair" labor legislation. (He incidentally wanted to take State party control from the old Alf Landon machine.) Soothed the Kansas City Star: "Kansas voters [merely] sent him back to Washington, where many believed his issue belonged...
...Many political columnists prefer to run with the partisan pack, but Clapper declares: "In this business you've got to be a kind of lone wolf." He has refused to endorse any group, and he belongs to no political party. A pre-Hearst discoverer and longtime friend of Alf Landon, Clapper did not mince his criticism when Landon swung to the Old Guard in the 1936 campaign. He is still Landon's friend...
Thomas E. Dewey, New York's onetime racket-buster, was the gubernatorial candidate of the Old Guard. Alf Landon had a man checking in with the rural vote upstate to see if all was safe for Dewey. Herbert Hoover spent much time in New York, to be on hand to counsel...
Clyde Reed has once been Governor of Kansas (1929-31), having got there with the help of Campaign Manager Alf Landon. He had a tempestuous administration, quarreled with everyone. His friend Roy Roberts, rotund managing editor of the Kansas City Star, told him: "If you manage to meet enough people, you're a cinch to be beaten next time." He did and he was. Reed stayed in political retirement until 1938, when he emerged to oppose rabble-rousing Rev. Gerald Winrod in the Republican Senatorial primary, went on to win the Senate seat...