Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alone with a microphone, after all the crowds, the shouts, the flaring lights, Alf Landon spoke in a voice surprisingly calm and deep. It grew ever quieter, slower, more halting as he reached the close of his election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study...
...Topeka for a quiet dinner with his family and a few close friends. Other friends began dropping in at the big, yellow and white Executive Mansion. The radio was on full blast. Out in the garage, press tickers clattered busily. The gloom which had hung over the Landon campaign train in all its travels about the country began to settle over the Landon parlor as the radio announcers kept shouting monotonously: "Roosevelt ahead in New York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead in. . . ." As he had on his train, Alf Landon, smiling, joking, puffing...
Kansas. Dopesters who expected Nominee Landon to carry Kansas were sure that his onetime campaign manager and private secretary, Will G. West, candidate for Governor and rated one of the State's smartest politicians, would run well ahead of him on the Republican ticket. But when Franklin Roosevelt swept even Alf Landon's home State, he carried a Democrat, Walter A. Huxman, along to fill Alf Landon's chair on Jan. 1. Farm-born near Pretty Prairie, outspoken, aggressive Governor-elect Huxman served on Kansas' State Tax Commission under onetime Governor Harry H. Woodring. Acting Secretary...
...each subsequent store. Gasoline stations and beauty parlors were exempted, but other chain stores, led by Safeway with 1,300 stores, got the help of Adman Don Francisco of Lord & Thomas (who two years ago waged a successful fight to defeat Upton Sinclair for Governor) and launched a desperate campaign to defeat the tax. Listing chain stores as paying almost $7,000,000 a year in taxes, paying almost $9,000,000 in rent, saving California consumers $14,000,000 a year by underselling independents 10%, purchasing $250,000,000 a year of California fruit and other products, almost half...
...than a problem of its own welfare; it is faced with obligations to the whole nation. There was and is today, more than ever, a basic issue in "personal government" but it must be approached carefully and intelligently. Blanket, hysterical charges, typical of the last six weeks of the campaign, proved indigestible to large numbers of liberals, and scare tactics aimed at stampeding voters proved to be boomerangs...