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...Alf M. Landon of Topeka, Kans., and Col, Frank Knox of Chicago, guests at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, paid a 15-minute call on fellow guest Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Alf Landon, former Republican nominee for President, admitted that he had never heard of Graville Hicks as he arrived in Boston last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landon Never Heard of Hicks; Pleased by Pennsylvania Vote | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

TOPEKA, Kan.--Alf M. Landon warned today that the Administration is "again upon an inflationary course" and that such a path "Ultimately leads to only one end--Bankruptcy." The former Republican candidate for President said, "The time may be long, or it may be very short, before the day of reckoning comes. The further we go in the direction we are now heading, the longer and more severe will be the period of suffering when we attempt to get into reverse--or if we do not reverse, when we come to the inevitable crash. The hope of the nation lies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 4/23/1938 | See Source »

Telegrams. While Franklin Roosevelt waited in vain for any answer from divine Emperor Hirohito covering the Japanese sinking of the Panay, he received a telegram from Alf Landon. A year ago, Alf Landon promised the President support in matters of international policy. Last week, Mr. Landon took advantage of the Panay sinking to reiterate his pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Panay Repercussions | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Stimson on Ludlow. Alf Landon's complaint against Congress was due to the Ludlow Resolution (TIME, Dec. 27), a proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for declaration of war by national referendum rather than act of Congress. The Ludlow Resolution has almost no chance of passage anyway, but Henry L. Stimson, who succeeded Frank Kellogg as Secretary of State, came to aid his own embarrassed successor, Cordell Hull. Policies of the U. S. State Department change less with changing administrations than those of any other department. Secretary Stimson and Secretary Hull see almost eye to eye on many matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Panay Repercussions | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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