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...despite a national Democratic sweep that year, he won-becoming, at 36, the youngest Governor in New Hampshire's history. Bridges instituted unemployment compensation and insurance, old age benefits, even while balancing the budget. By 1936, Governor Bridges was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination. But Alf Landon won the top spot on the ticket, and even before the Republican Convention, gleeful Democrats had come up with a deadly campaign slogan: "Landon-Bridges Falling Down." The convention turned to Chicago Publisher Frank Knox as its vice-presidential nominee, and Bridges decided to run for the Senate...
Describing the landslide election of '36, Author Schlesinger, using Alf Landon's previously unopened private papers, reveals an attractive personality who had far more liking and leaning toward F.D.R. and the New Deal than his reputation as a ''Kansas Coolidge" and the vituperative 1936 presidential campaign would suggest. In one telling vignette in a Topeka chicken restaurant, a bellicose Hoover barks rapid boos at a Roosevelt radio speech, and an embarrassed Landon hustles him away from the cluster of newsmen. When the supposedly bitter rivals met at a preelection Governors' conference in Des Moines. relations...
...Republican presidential candidate, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman London signed a bill restoring capital punishment to the Kansas penal code. Therefore, when Kansas' current Governor, George Docking, recently commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of a brutal murder, he drew a sharp rap from Alf Landon, now 72. Last week, Docking, only half in jest, snapped: "If Landon likes capital punishment so well, we'll just offer him the job of state executioner at $100 a throw. I'll throw in free cigarettes." Replied Landon icily: "That comment sounds about as psychopathic as some...
...done it under almost impossible circumstances. He took over the leadership job after the worst Republican defeat since the sunflower campaign of Kansas' Alf Landon went to seed in 1936. Dwight Eisenhower, barred from seeking a third term, looked like lame-duck soup to the lopsided Democratic majority in Congress. House and Senate Republicans were fighting among themselves, seemed incapable of forming a line of defense against the war-dancing Democrats...
More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...