Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senate, they are mostly conservative and the few liberals in the senate are, almost without exception, estranged from the church. It would be a happy experience for the nation to have a sound Christian radical of Governor Sweet's type in the senate. We understand that Judge Florence Allen is also running for the senate in Ohio, She incarnates the same type of Christian idealism as Governor Sweet. It would be cause for rejoicing if two such church members could have the opportunity of teaching America what Christian idealism at its best implies...
...seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition on farming problems. Thence the President proceeded to Denver, to Alaska and then to California where he died in a hotel, a month after being in the wheat field. . . . Last week...
Justice Florence Ellinwood Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court...
...EUGENE ALLEN...
...June World's Work remarks--the passing of what William Allen White terms "American Populism" with the death of Bryan. Roosevelt, Wilson, and La Follette. Before 1890, the Populist Party, which at its height commanded but 22 electoral votes, demanded curbing of the trusts, strict regulation of railroads, banking reform, popular election of Senators, an income tax, and cheap money. At the hour of first demand, politicians of the major parties would have none of these issues. By 1917 all except the last had found expression in law. They permeated the political life of two decades and attached themselves...