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...definite conclusion could be made last week on the Republican race: either Kansas' Alf Landon or Pennsylvania's Joe Pew could make Tom Dewey's nomination certain. Last week neither boss was so disposed...
That lesson cost Joe Pew an estimated $200,000, taught him never to go away till an election was safely over. In 1936 he had another setback as he helplessly watched Kansas' Alf Landon become the G. O. P. choice; loyally he bought tons of sun flower badges, tons of propaganda; bitterly he heard gentle Mr. Landon soft-pedal attacks on the New Deal. Today mention of Alf Landon is likely to make Mr. Pew sneer: "Is he a Republican...
...Republican primaries until 1941. Moreover, Tom Dewey's whopping total was but 90% of the Republican vote-at least 10% of the GOPsters refused to endorse him. Illinoisans looked at each other and remembered that in 1936 Franklin Roosevelt had a 712,606-vote majority over Republican Alf Landon...
Told by their Anthropology instructor, Marshall T. Newman, to take measurements of 25 people at random in order to classify them racially, Gould and Cooney used terms from "ace flatng" to "alf prog" and simply "squeeze" to measure everything from the curvature of the hair to the shape of the fingernails of 25 Bishop Lee Dramatic School girls...
...Other Republicans worked more quietly. In Kansas persistent Alf Landon finally grasped entire control of the State's GOP delegation (18 votes) to the Republican convention. Landon's strategy, concurred in by Liberals Joe Martin of Massachusetts, Ken Simpson of New York and Midwest leaders, as now planned, is simple. Expecting Michigan's Vandenberg and New York's Dewey to cancel each other out, the GOP liberals count Ohio's Taft as their chief foe. Mr. Taft, who has Hooverized about 300 Southern and miscellaneous delegates, will be kept, if possible, from gaining votes...