Word: alf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fitz is free to say what he wants, and this P-D contract provides that he never has to draw a cartoon that doesn't represent his full conviction. In 1936, when the mercurial P-D decided to support Alf Landon, Fitz a resolute F.D.R. man, served notice that he would draw no political cartoons, and drew none. He also stayed away from politics in 1948, when the P-D backed Dewey, but he was hand in hand with the paper again in supporting Stevenson in 1952. His own favorite cartoons are chiefly political. Among them (see cuts...
...Roberts, mused to reporters that in contrast to Democratic five-percenters, Roberts had turned out to be a ten-percenter. Said he: "Perhaps Wes Roberts had to show he could double a Democrat ... His conduct in this transaction was, at the very least, morally outrageous." Aging (65) Alf Landon, a member of the Hall group, charged that Roberts had "made a raid on the public treasury . . . which stinks to high heaven...
Though Ike Eisenhower's trip to Korea will be as safe as the Pentagon and Secret Service can make it, there are some who think the idea is still too risky. Shortly after the election, onetime Republican Presidential Candidate Alf Landon and onetime Democratic Secretary of War Harry Woodring issued a joint appeal for Ike to stay home for "the welfare" of the American people. The appeal was soon seconded by such jittery citizens as Walter Winchell and the editors of the pro-Stevenson New York Post. Behind the concern lies an unanswered question: Who would become President...
...inclined to agree, for the Republicans have failed to carry a single major election in Texas since the Party was formed a century ago. By the Taft Texans' standard, when the last man living who voted for Alf Landon passes away, the Republican Party would do likewise. If they meant what they said, perhaps that is the way they want it to stay...
...between Eisenhower and Senator Robert A. Taft never really developed. On the first ballot Ike polled 361 votes, Taft 328, Warren 90, General Douglas MacArthur 36, and Harold Stassen 30. An amazingly large crowd of 12 favorite son candidates, including Herbert Hoover, John Foster Dulles, Senator Wayne Morse, and Alf Landon rounded out the 1,200 delegate votes...