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...Roosevelt's plan was bold. First he dismissed the proposal (made both by Mrs. Roosevelt and by Alf M. Landon) that the U. S. give Britain cash outright. Proud Britons wouldn't welcome gifts, he said. Then he dismissed, as narrow-minded and banal, suggestions to change the Johnson & Neutrality Acts, then lend Britain money. After a brief backhand smash at people who think in traditional terms about finances, he outlined his plan: the U. S. will pay for all future British arms orders, will lease or mortgage war materials to Britain under a "gentlemen's agreement...
WASHINGTON--Alf M. Landon today proposed that the United States help defeat Adolf Hitler with outright subsidies to Great Britain and that, in the interests of successful rearmament, labor temporarily forfeit some of its rights...
...Council for Democracy headed by Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government, is sponsoring a unity meeting in New York City tonight with Alf M. Landon and Dorothy Thompson as headline speakers to coordinate the two political parties behind the national policy...
...first rumor to get around was that Wendell Willkie was just a super-hawker who had sold the Republican Convention a bill of goods. Last week, spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. When was he going to settle down and tend to his muttons-to winning an election for the Republican Party? Groaning Republicans saw Franklin Roosevelt, looking as insouciant as a gambler with a sure thing, planted before a backdrop of big guns, while Vice-Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington...
...Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend a week in Topeka, Kans. painting Candidate Alf Landon. The Tribune held first rights to the picture, but the artist retained the copyright, which enabled him to charge the Republicans $1,500 for using it as their official campaign portrait. In 1938 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to paint General John Joseph Pershing (who posed...