Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaigned his way into the governorship, and promptly took political possession of the State in his own right instead of that of the New Deal. And when Governor Curley decided to run for the Senate, he did not even bother to put out the Democratic incumbent, Marcus Allen Coolidge. Senator Coolidge was simply dumped by the wayside; the Democratic convention automatically endorsed Mr. Curley. By way of protest to Massachusetts' respectable citizens, the Senator's son-in-law, Mayor Robert E. Greenwood of Fitchburg, ran against the Governor in the primary. The best he could...
Starting lineups for this afternoon are: Fesler-Stahley outfit: Ends, Winter and Staples; tackles, Adlis and Kevorkian; guards, Allen and Kessler; center, Jones; backs, Roberts, Brooks, Wilson and Struck...
Charlie Kessler and Rus Allen look at present as though they will start the Amherst clash as guards, but no one will be surprised if Joe Neo shoves his way into the lineup before next Saturday. The pivot position has developed into a duel between last year's Eli starter, Bob Jones, and Henry Russell, a promising Sophomore. Jim Fearon, another second year man, may also see service this fall...
...such moderates that moderate Alf Landon, on the counsel of such intimates as Lacy Haynes, Roy Roberts, William Allen White and Charles Phelps Taft, had aimed his campaign. Conservatives and other New Deal haters, he and his advisers figured, would be sure to vote for him in any event. To win, he needed the votes of the middle-of-the-roaders who liked much of the New Deal program but were uneasy about New Deal performance. On that assumption, Nominee Landon had up to last week pursued a campaign of sweet reasonableness, avoiding any violent or wholesale condemnation...
Campaigning with Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle in Allen- town, Democrat Jack Dempsey busily scribbled autographs, asked one eager moppet: "And don't you want the Governor's signature too?" Retorted the moppet: "Naw, I only want yours...