Word: alf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early as Monday, Candidate Robert Taft had phoned Jim Duff-who was trying to hold the fort for Arthur Vandenberg-and invited him to a conference. They met at the Drake Hotel, in the penthouse apartment of John D. M. Hamilton, who was national chairman of the G.O.P. when Alf Landon was its candidate...
Brass Bands. The arrival of candidates heightened the noise and confusion. Harold Stassen got in first. His welcoming party cheered at the wrong railway car, found itself greeting Alf Landon instead. After that, the pumping of brass bands, the milling of the curious, the sound of police sirens and applause were repeated over & over as Tom Dewey, Bob Taft and Earl Warren made their entrances...
Against the well-intentioned advice of nearly every Kansas GOPolitico, he announced his intention of making his sixth campaign for the Senate. "Young Bill" White, son of Emporia's late sage, was sure he knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...
...minutes later he was a politician again. Tall, handsome Harry Darby, G.O.P. national committeeman in Kansas, came up and gave him the inside on how Alf Landon had been given a drubbing at the Republican state convention in Wichita. (Roberts dabbles little in Missouri politics but-because the Star is the biggest paper in Kansas-he is Kansas' top GOPower...
...Roberts-Darby group had won 13 of the state's 19 delegates to the national convention, and would doubtless force stubborn Alf Landon out as delegation chairman. It meant that Darby-who is for Dewey on the first ballot-would make the decisions of the Kansas delegation at Philadelphia in June. Roberts, who has a reasonably tough hide, used to wince at reminders of his 1936 fiasco with Landon. Now, enjoying his role as a friendly enemy of Alf's, he pushed his belly back from his desk and nodded: "Fine. Fine...