Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proudly showed the rough draft of his acceptance speech to Editor William Allen White (Emporia Gazette). Sage Mr. White announced that Wendell Willkie's victory was "in the stars," told a story: "In 1936 I told Alf Landon that he wasn't going to carry Kansas . . . But this year it's different, and Mr. Willkie is going to carry Kansas...
Willkie flashed a broad grin when he heard the demonstration start and the galleries begin to chant: "We want Willkie." Then he ducked downstairs for a conference with ex-Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, who reportedly said to him: "If you're still in there pitching on the fourth or fifth ballot I'm with...
...Kansas, a somewhat baffled Alf Landon introduced the utilities executive as the "vigorous, energetic and amazing Wendell Willkie." Said Mr. Willkie to Alf Landon and a Kansas crowd: "I'm the cockiest fellow you ever saw. If you want to vote for me, fine. If you don't, go jump in the lake and I'm still...
Apprehensive Republicans steeled Alf Landon for the dangerous lunch. Collar askew, pants rumpsprung as ever, the Kansan appeared at the White House, reappeared almost two hours later, said: "We talked of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings." "Cabinets and kings?" asked a reporter. Cabbages, said Mr. Landon. He went back to his hotel room, there dictated another vigorous blast against a Third Term. Mr. Roosevelt could have national unity, he said, if he would at once renounce Term III. This statement went big with all G. O. P. leaders, drew a laudatory press...
...glamorless Robert A. Taft, No. 1 Republican Bumbler, beetled off around the U. S. putting his foot in his mouth. Last week in St. Louis, Republicans from eight States told him of a daily-spreading Midwest sentiment for more substantial aid to the Allies. G. O. P. leaders, from Alf Landon down, had warned him to go slow on Isolationism; local chiefs had told him how delighted they were at his continued open-mindedness on foreign affairs. That night Senator Taft spoke, made his strongest appeal yet for strict U. S. neutrality, financial as well as military, in World...