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What did he think of Alf Landon...
Missionaries & money without a gospel, however, are no more effective than a gospel without money & missionaries. To most observers, trying to account last week for the Landon slump during August, the Republican gospel of salvation being preached by Alf Landon on one hand and that being preached by John Hamilton and Frank Knox on the other seemed about as dissonant and confusing to voters as the competing Christianities of a Boston Unitarian and a hard-shell Southern Baptist would be to Hottentot bushmen...
...such moderates that moderate Alf Landon, on the counsel of such intimates as Lacy Haynes, Roy Roberts, William Allen White and Charles Phelps Taft, had aimed his campaign. Conservatives and other New Deal haters, he and his advisers figured, would be sure to vote for him in any event. To win, he needed the votes of the middle-of-the-roaders who liked much of the New Deal program but were uneasy about New Deal performance. On that assumption, Nominee Landon had up to last week pursued a campaign of sweet reasonableness, avoiding any violent or wholesale condemnation...
From the Class of 1911, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Class of 1904 gets many a brickbat. Seventy-five percent declare they will vote for Alf M. Landon this year. As a loyal alumnus, Author Tunis finds that fact painful. "Whence," he asks, "this strange, almost fanatical hatred of a fellow Harvardman...
...sudden, are fabulous and some of them are real. Dean of the gold mining business is old Judge John W. Haussermann, who went to the Philippines 38 years ago as a second lieutenant of the 20th Kansas regiment and returned last July as Republican National Committeeman to hear Alf Landon accept his Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along since 1909 it did not get into the big money until after 1926 when...