Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident got an exceptionally bad press. Franklin Roosevelt read the papers over his breakfast coffee, grabbed the telephone, and himself called Mr. Landon. The Kansan, in a press conference, was at the peak of a denunciation of Term III. Everybody had muffed everything, said the President mellowly; he always liked to eat lunch with Mr. Landon whenever he happened to pass through Washington. Mr. Landon, 835 miles away in Chicago, just gulped, then entrained for Washington...
Apprehensive Republicans steeled Alf Landon for the dangerous lunch. Collar askew, pants rumpsprung as ever, the Kansan appeared at the White House, reappeared almost two hours later, said: "We talked of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings." "Cabinets and kings?" asked a reporter. Cabbages, said Mr. Landon. He went back to his hotel room, there dictated another vigorous blast against a Third Term. Mr. Roosevelt could have national unity, he said, if he would at once renounce Term III. This statement went big with all G. O. P. leaders, drew a laudatory press...