Word: alf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...History in the Making Series." Last week, encouraged by the box-office returns in Manhattan, MOT decided to reissue its whole stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints became available. Sample sights in store: Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon out to overthrow Roosevelt's New Deal; the rise of Adolf Hitler; Father Coughlin and Huey Long on the stump; the Midwest's bleak Dust Bowl...
...ALF WARKENTIN Steinbach, Manitoba Canada...
...F.D.R. But Roosevelt was against everything that Hearst now stood for. When he realized how things were, Hearst furiously reversed his editorial guns; his papers were ordered to print it "Raw Deal," even in reporting New Dealers' speeches. But it was an anachronistic war; the landslide against Alf Landon (1936), Hearst's personally blessed candidate, was a measure of the decline of the Hearstpapers' editorial force...
Earthy Aura. Eisenhower men are wasting no time. Eisenhower-for-President headquarters are already staked out in Kansas, longtime home of the Eisenhower family. Ex-Senator Harry Darby of Kansas City, astute, wealthy G.O.P. national committeeman, who took over control of the state Republican machine from Alf Landon, is in charge. Kansas and Darby will give Ike's candidacy a genuine home-grown and earthy aura. The Kansans are grateful for Eisenhower's support from Eastern industrialists and political leaders, but do not want to get Ike too thoroughly identified with them. They are even thinking of balancing...
...Georgetown one evening last week, wealthy Mrs. Alf Heiberg, whose second husband of four was General Douglas MacArthur, sat listening to a radio program on civil defense. The longer Mrs. Heiberg listened, the more alarmed she became. The next morning she scouted Washington, D.C. and found a contractor who could build her a bomb shelter with thick walls and heavy lead doors. Explained Mrs. Heiberg: "After all, if they attacked Washington I'm sure they'd aim a bomb at a former wife of General MacArthur, so I'm going to try to be prepared." Mrs. Heiberg...