Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consular system, Streit suggests Churchill and Roosevelt as dual executives. Each member democracy would have one representative in the unicameral Congress, with an additional one for every 5,000,000 people. Thus there would be 49 members of Congress, of whom 27 would be American. After suggesting Wendell Willkie, Alf Landon, Al Smith, and others as our representatives, Streit leaves space for the gentle reader to fill in his own nominations. A proposed "Declaration of Inter-Dependence" and a constitution are included, showing how closely the U. S. M. can be patterned after...
...appeared, to reiterate his House testimony of Jan. 23. The other headliners did poorly-General Robert E. Wood, isolationist mail-order tycoon ; isolationist ex-Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin; belligerent Isolationist Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher. There were 22 others, from Historian Charles A. Beard to Kansan Alf M. Landon, from Military Expert George Fielding Eliot to Chamber of Commerce President James S. Kemper...
...Roosevelt's plan was bold. First he dismissed the proposal (made both by Mrs. Roosevelt and by Alf M. Landon) that the U. S. give Britain cash outright. Proud Britons wouldn't welcome gifts, he said. Then he dismissed, as narrow-minded and banal, suggestions to change the Johnson & Neutrality Acts, then lend Britain money. After a brief backhand smash at people who think in traditional terms about finances, he outlined his plan: the U. S. will pay for all future British arms orders, will lease or mortgage war materials to Britain under a "gentlemen's agreement...
WASHINGTON--Alf M. Landon today proposed that the United States help defeat Adolf Hitler with outright subsidies to Great Britain and that, in the interests of successful rearmament, labor temporarily forfeit some of its rights...
...Council for Democracy headed by Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government, is sponsoring a unity meeting in New York City tonight with Alf M. Landon and Dorothy Thompson as headline speakers to coordinate the two political parties behind the national policy...