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...official names to J. Cal Coolidge and Herb C. Hoover. Nonetheless a stream of important visitors, interested in helping make a 33rd President of the U. S., made their way during the past fortnight to the door of the Kansas Governor who was christened Alfred and now calls himself Alf. In the Press the kind of build-up which experienced partisans know how to produce for a favorite made the Landon name loom larger & larger on the list of GOPossibilities...
...early stages of the race. But if the highly successful premature activities of Mr. Hoover in 1927 and Mr. Roosevelt in 1931 have any significance, the fact that in October, 1935 Frank Knox is way ahead of his field augurs well for his chances in June, 1936. Who Is Alf Landon? Alfred Mossman Landon is favored for the nomination by the four Kansas Republican Congressmen, Senator Arthur Capper, onetime Vice President Charles Curtis and Alfred Mossman Landon. He has also just become the candidate of William Randolph Hearst, who fortnight ago lifted the Landon boomlet out of the Favorite...
...said: "I am extremely flattered by the Presidential talk, but these are difficult times and I owe the people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years...
...Governor Alf Landon clutched the bouquet to his bosom where he was already holding one tossed that morning from California (see below). But the Republican enemies of Republicans Curtis and Landon could not let the ceremony pass. Was it, they asked, a bouquet from a bride or a skunk cabbage from a scullery maid? What right had Charles Curtis to speak for Kansas? What right had he to propose a candidate for President? By way of answer, they produced a note written by Mr. Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred...
...years ago "Alf" Landon was a young independent oil man of considerable means. Five years ago, a widower, he married Miss Theo Cobb who has one of the largest collections of Westward Ho glass in the U. S. Since then he has become the father of two children and has twice been elected Governor of Kansas. Politicians would not be surprised to see him turn up at next year's Republican convention wheeling 100 or more Landon-pledged delegates in his perambulator...