Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican primaries until 1941. Moreover, Tom Dewey's whopping total was but 90% of the Republican vote-at least 10% of the GOPsters refused to endorse him. Illinoisans looked at each other and remembered that in 1936 Franklin Roosevelt had a 712,606-vote majority over Republican Alf Landon...
...Other Republicans worked more quietly. In Kansas persistent Alf Landon finally grasped entire control of the State's GOP delegation (18 votes) to the Republican convention. Landon's strategy, concurred in by Liberals Joe Martin of Massachusetts, Ken Simpson of New York and Midwest leaders, as now planned, is simple. Expecting Michigan's Vandenberg and New York's Dewey to cancel each other out, the GOP liberals count Ohio's Taft as their chief foe. Mr. Taft, who has Hooverized about 300 Southern and miscellaneous delegates, will be kept, if possible, from gaining votes...
BERLIN. N. H.--Hampered by sticky snow, Alf Engen of the Sun Valley Ski Club successfully defended his title today by capturing the National Ski Jumping Championship from a field of 200 of the nation's top flight skiers...
...Hagerty of the New York Times and Edwin S. ("Ned") McIntosh of the New York Herald Tribune, thought they had found the dark horse of the Republican Convention in short, swart Joseph William Martin Jr., able minority leader of the House of Representatives. From Topeka, Kans., where Nominee Alf Landon performed the same function in 1936, Joe Martin keynoted at the famed Republican Kansas Day rally. Messrs. Hagerty & McIntosh reported that Republican leaders from all over the country were much impressed by popular, modest Mr. Martin, who offered as a platform the same twelve-point, help-business program he gave...