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...would stop Willkie agreed on everything except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
...Nación. In 1929 only one national daily newspaper in Great Britain supported the Labor Party, but that party, aided by the trade-union press, won more seats in the House of Commons than any other. In 1936, newspapers with 60% to 70% of U.S. circulation were for Alf Landon, who got 36.4% of the votes. In 1939 FORTUNE published a survey showing that press news, which people were used to, was popularly voted less reliable than the newly triumphant radio news...
...Time & again Ben Bates turned down fabulous offers for his property. The guests stayed on until they died, one even dropping off peacefully while sitting in one of the lobby's overstuffed chairs. Occasionally the famous dropped in again: a porter recalls shining Warren Harding's shoes; Alf Landon took the Cleveland suite when he came to Manhattan in the 1936 campaign...
...active Republican, he has fought Democrats all his life. His political activity hit top in 1936 when Kansan Alf Landon was running for President...
...latest series of reactionary blasts is one-time presidential candidate Alf Landon, whose shallow mind is unable to discriminate between bureaucracy of a Nazi slave state and the government by delegated authority in a social-security democracy. The old-guard Kansas Republican picked Henry A. Wallace as his target. Seldom has there been an attack as malicious, insidious, and completely unconstructive as this short-sighted diatribe directed at a political figure recognized by our Allies, from Left to Right, as the spokesman for the common...