Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant has a favorite theme. He stated it in a letter to Alf M. Landon last fall. He repeated it on a nation-wide radio hook-up Wednesday night. It is: "Fear of war is no basis for a national policy." This sentence throws dust in the eyes of those interested in keeping this country out of war. It pretends to be a universal principle, applicable in any given case. But it is not. If we feel that a particular war offers nothing but disaster for us, we have a right to fear our entrance into...
Making his first public statement on the war since his letter to Alf Landon favoring repeal of the arms embargo last October, President Conant will speak tonight over a nation-wide hook-up of the Columbia broadcasting system on "Immediate Aid to the Allies...
...definite conclusion could be made last week on the Republican race: either Kansas' Alf Landon or Pennsylvania's Joe Pew could make Tom Dewey's nomination certain. Last week neither boss was so disposed...
That lesson cost Joe Pew an estimated $200,000, taught him never to go away till an election was safely over. In 1936 he had another setback as he helplessly watched Kansas' Alf Landon become the G. O. P. choice; loyally he bought tons of sun flower badges, tons of propaganda; bitterly he heard gentle Mr. Landon soft-pedal attacks on the New Deal. Today mention of Alf Landon is likely to make Mr. Pew sneer: "Is he a Republican...
Told by their Anthropology instructor, Marshall T. Newman, to take measurements of 25 people at random in order to classify them racially, Gould and Cooney used terms from "ace flatng" to "alf prog" and simply "squeeze" to measure everything from the curvature of the hair to the shape of the fingernails of 25 Bishop Lee Dramatic School girls...