Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this discovery, Wendell Willkie then went so far as to praise a speech made by Alf Landon of Kansas, longtime anti-Willkieite, as "one of the most provocative and constructive talks made by any Republican during the past few months. It took a great deal of courage to make...
...There was Alf Landon, John Hamilton, Joseph Pew, Senator Nye and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith; and, of course, the metropolitan McCormick-Patterson newspaper axis. They were loud. They were angry. They indulged in much loose talk. . . . These political locusts had nothing to say. . . . [They are] discredited mouthpieces of reaction. . . . They simply agreed in their hatred of the outstanding Republican of our time-Wendell Willkie...
...would stop Willkie agreed on everything except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
...Nación. In 1929 only one national daily newspaper in Great Britain supported the Labor Party, but that party, aided by the trade-union press, won more seats in the House of Commons than any other. In 1936, newspapers with 60% to 70% of U.S. circulation were for Alf Landon, who got 36.4% of the votes. In 1939 FORTUNE published a survey showing that press news, which people were used to, was popularly voted less reliable than the newly triumphant radio news...
...Time & again Ben Bates turned down fabulous offers for his property. The guests stayed on until they died, one even dropping off peacefully while sitting in one of the lobby's overstuffed chairs. Occasionally the famous dropped in again: a porter recalls shining Warren Harding's shoes; Alf Landon took the Cleveland suite when he came to Manhattan in the 1936 campaign...