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Landon of Kansas

Book by Donald R. McCoy; University of Nebraska Press, 1966

Subjects:

Landon, Alfred M--(Alfred Mossman)--1887-1987

Collections: History, Entire Library

...not always know what to make of Alf Landon. Alfred Mossman Landons immediate...politics and oil, though John and Alfred Landon were casual in their interpretations...and son at her side. John and Alfred Landon, neither an easy man with money...
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Never Again: A President Runs for a Third Term

Book by Herbert S. Parmet, Marie B. Hecht; Macmillan, 1968

Subjects:

Presidents--United States--Election--1940, Roosevelt, Franklin D--(Franklin Delano)--1882-1945, Willkie, Wendell L--(Wendell Lewis)--1892-1944

Collections: History, Entire Library

...emergency bipartisan. He invited Governor Alfred Landon, his 1936 opponent for the Presidency...the Democratic contenders. Governor Alfred Landon, however, on the occasion of his visit...up the third-term mystery. Governor Alfred Landon tried to "smoke him out" by a direct...
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The Republican Dilemma: Conservatism or Progressivism

Book by Conrad Joyner; University of Arizona Press, 1963

Subjects:

Conservatism--United States, Progressivism (United States politics), Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), United States--Politics and government--20th century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...told that affairs in Europe had dampened the ardor for Mr. Dewey. In spite of this, and in spite of warnings from Alf Landon and Republican leaders for eight other states that sympathy for the Allies was mounting daily, Taft exhorted the...
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The Republican Right since 1945

Book by David W. Reinhard; University Press of Kentucky, 1983

Subjects:

Conservatism--United States--History--20th century, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), United States--Politics and government--1945-1989

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to do something they had not done for sixteen years: return a Republican majority to Congress. Writing in early 1946, Alf Landon correctly gauged the importance of the upcoming congressional election: "If the Republicans dont win the National House...
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The Roosevelt Myth

Book by John T. Flynn; Devin-Adair, 1948

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Franklin D--(Franklin Delano)--1882-1945, United States--Pol. & Govt. 1933-1945

Collections: History, Entire Library

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Journal Articles on: "Alf Landon" OR "Alfred Landon" OR "Landon Alfred"

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"Supporting Our Friends and Defeating Our Enemies": Militancy and Nonpartisanship in the NAACP, 1936-1948

Journal article by Simon Topping; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 89, 2004

Subjects:

Black organizations--History, Black organizations--Political aspects, Black organizations--Social aspects, NAACP--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...standard, "people here remember the fight on Borah ... and Roosevelts silence on lynching." (25) Walter Whites attacks on Alf Landon over lynching and relief payments were particularly galling to these black Republicans in the NAACP. (26) White responded...
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When the People Spoke, What Did They Say? the Election of 1936 and the Ackerman Thesis

Journal article by William E. Leuchtenburg; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, 1999

Subjects:

Ackerman, Bruce--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Constitutional history--Analysis, Constitutional law--Political aspects, Elections--History, We the People, vol. 2, Transformations (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...of the Constitution. Kansas Governor Alf Landon wrote John Hamilton, who was to manage...nominated, Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon had to work out a strategy for dealing...with the Kan. State Hist. Socy, in the Alf Landon Papers, Box 83) (89.) Id. (90.) See...
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"[Not] a Thin Dime:" Kansas Relief Politics in the Campaign of 1936

Journal article by R. Alton Lee; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

Subjects:

Electioneering--History, New Deal, 1933-1939, Political campaigns--History, Public assistance--Government finance, Public assistance--History, Public assistance--Political aspects, Welfare--Government finance, Welfare--History, Welfare--Political aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...their roost without raising an alarm, Alf Landon entered the independent petroleum business...is the present governor of our state, Alf Landon." This caustic comment caused "considerable...depended on FDRs relief programs. (35) Alf Landon received millions of dollars more than...
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Soul Searching: Pseudo Psephology

Journal article by William Burke; Challenge, Vol. 36, 1993

Subjects:

Election forecasting--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Political campaigns--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Political indicators--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...pseudo psephology by William Burke The pollsters got it right. They exorcised the ghosts of the Literary Digests Alf Landon and the Chicago Tribunes Tom Dewey. But November 3rd was otherwise a disastrous day for many entrail watchers who claimed...
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Revolution on a Human Scale

Journal article by Bruce Ackerman; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, 1999

Subjects:

Constitutional history--Analysis, Constitutional law--Political aspects, We the People, vol. 2, Transformations (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...framing functions discharged both by the Supreme Court and Alf Landon in the run-up to the 1936 elections. Johnsons Veto Messages...Republicans was the functional equivalent of the effort by Alf Landon and his fellow Republicans to rouse the voters to defend the...

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Magazine Articles on: "Alf Landon" OR "Alfred Landon" OR "Landon Alfred"

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As Bill Goes, So Do We; the Left and Clinton

Magazine article by Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin; The Nation, Vol. 258, May 30, 1994

Subjects:

Clinton, Bill--Evaluation, Presidents (Government)--Evaluation, Presidents--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...The Nation reported in November 1936 after Democratic incumbent Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated Republican challenger Alf Landon in the presidential election. "The direction is toward the left - that is, toward progress in social legislation, the protection...
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy

Magazine article by John B. Judis; The American Prospect, Vol. 11, August 28, 2000

Subjects:

Bush, George W.--Political activity, Cheney, Dick--Political activity, Presidential candidates--Political activity

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...party has nominated candidate with so little national experience since the Republicans sent Kansas Governor and former oilman Alf Landon up against Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan were governors when they ran, but they had also participated...
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Season of Centrist Tidings

Magazine article by Nick Penning; School Administrator, Vol. 54, March 1997

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Franklin Roosevelt to be re-elected, his plurality over Bob Dole is nothing like the FDR-induced thrashing the public gave to Alf Landon, the moderate Kansas governor whose mild-mannered daughter, Nancy Kassebaum, did get to Washington and recently ended her...
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Hoosiers: The Lost World of Booth Tarkington

Magazine article by Thomas Mallon; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, May 2004

Subjects:

Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Tarkington, Booth--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...greatest living writer; by means of a poll that now seems as accurate as the magazines prediction, fourteen years later, that Alf Landon would be President. Entirely absent from most current histories of American writing Tarkington was generally scorned by...
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It Ain't Broke

Magazine article by John Buell; Commonweal, Vol. 124, February 14, 1997

Subjects:

Social security--Protection

Collections: Entire Library

...Trust Fund. The current call to dismantle Social Security is hardly new; it goes back to earliest days. Its godparents are Alf Landon and Barry Goldwater, Republican nominees for president in 1936 and 1964. Their ignominious defeats put this agenda on hold...

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Newspaper Articles on: "Alf Landon" OR "Alfred Landon" OR "Landon Alfred"

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Alabama Tax Massacre

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2003

Subjects:

Riley, Bob

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...establishment tax increasers got a smaller percentage of the vote than Alf Landon did against Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. This is the third...the Democrats seem to have finally found their answer to Alf Landon. But there is a much deeper implication of these results...
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Counting the Toll, 60 Years Later

Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, July 18, 1996

Subjects:

Stalin, Joseph

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...appalling degree during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter. Other events in July 1936 included the nomination of Gov. Alf Landon (Sen. Nancy Kassebaums father) as the Republican candidate against Franklin Roosevelts re-election, Benito Mussolinis conquest...
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Bush-Gore Debates May Be Uncivil; 1960 Set Harsh Tone

Newspaper article by Thomas V. Dibacco; The Washington Times, October 1, 2000

Subjects:

Nixon, Richard M.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...returned the indirect attack. "In 1935 when the Social Security Act was written, 94 out of 95 Republicans voted against it. Alf Landon ran in 1936 to repeal it. In August of 1960 when we tried to get it again, this time for medical care, we received the support...
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Labor Doesn't Deliver the Vote

Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, March 29, 1996

Subjects:

AFL-CIO, Sweeney, John J.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Clinton in 1992, 40 percent of union members voted for George Bush, one of the weakest GOP presidential candidates since Alf Landon in 1936. Labor leaders endorsed Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984, to no avail; Ronald Reagan was elected and...
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Political Samplings Historically Flawed

Newspaper article by Thomas V. Dibacco; The Washington Times, August 18, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...contests through 1932. Then in the presidential election of 1936, pitting President Franklin D. Roosevelt against Republican Alf Landon, Literary Digest hoped for another successful forecast. It devised its sample voting list from automobile registration cards...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Alf Landon" OR "Alfred Landon" OR "Landon Alfred"

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Landon, Alfred Mossman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

LANDON, ALFRED MOSSMAN 1887 1987, U.S. politician, b. West Middlesex, Pa. He was a banker and oil operator before he ran for public office...
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Kassebaum-Baker, Nancy Landon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1932 , U.S. senator from Kansas (1979 97), b. Topeka, Kans. A Republican and the daughter of Kansas governor Alfred Mossman (Alf) Landon , she was the first woman who had not entered politics as the widow of a congressman to be elected to the Senate. Kassebaum...

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