Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...THIS IS MY PARTY!" he roared when Senators Shortridge, Robinson (of Arkansas) and Allen tried to run the hearing in an orderly way. In spite of them he played a loud, smart game of personage-baiting, dragging one famed figure after another into his melodramatic past...
After spending the greater part of the University recess in South America, Dr. Glover M. Allen, associate professor in Zoology, has returned to his duties at the University Museum. Traveling through Sao Paulo with the purpose of establishing mor cordial relations with the local museums, Dr. Allen delivered several public lectures at the National Museum of Natural History and Archaeology of the state of Sao Paulo. Later he journeyed to the Instituto Butantan, where he delivered a short address to the staff. Sao Paulo is an agricultural state in which nearly three-fourths of the world's coffee is grown...
Before returning to Cambridge, Dr. Allen made a fourteen-day expedition into the mountains of southern Brazil, where he collected a quantity of specimens. These specimens are now being prepared and classified for a Brazilian group in the University Museum...
...Mather spoke of their trip at a meeting held Saturday at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, whose course in the education of teachers of the blind opened Friday afternoon in Lawrence Hall, Cambridge. Under the direction of Professor E. E. Allen, lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this course, the only one in the United States, is held yearly...