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...Nancy Kassebaum, 51. She is one of the Senate's two women (the other: Republican Paula Hawkins) and scion of Alf Landon, the 1936 G.O.P. presidential nominee. A moderate on economic and social issues, Kassebaum has supported the ERA and legalized abortion...
...separated more than once when John was a boy. He started working nights and weekends, sometimes stacking groceries; later, he played the saxophone in black nightclubs. "I remember the feeling of doing a good day's work, and that's one hell of a feeling," he told TIME'S Alf McCreary two years ago. "I am still driven by that work ethic. Money is not important...
DIED. Oscar Stauffer, 95, onetime head of a Midwestern communications empire, whose considerable political clout helped engineer the G.O.P. presidential nomination of Alf M. Landon in 1936; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stauffer Communications, now made up of 31 newspaper and broadcasting properties in eleven states, was launched in 1915, when Stauffer purchased a Kansas weekly paper with money he had earned as a reporter...
...city machines, he had added an implausible combination of blacks and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that swept away a man's barn and reduced his house to splinters. The man's wife found him laughing in the ruins and demanded to know what he was laughing at. Said he: "The completeness...
...finest crop of little revolutions I ever saw is ripe all over this country right now," a Farmers' Union leader testified before a Senate committee. Conservatives were no less apocalyptic. "Even the iron hand of a national dictator is in preference to a paralytic stroke," said Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "If this country ever needed a Mussolini, it needs one now," declared Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania. In Europe, indeed, the week of Roosevelt's Inauguration was the same week in which Adolf Hitler used the Reichstag fire to win emergency powers and suppress all opponents...