Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news unless it bore the name of Landon. A majority of Pennsylvania delegates would plump for Landon. All the Old Guard politicians were conspiring in vain to ''Stop Landon." Indiana's State Convention picked its delegates, tagged them Landon. Emporia's sage, beaming William Allen White, and troops of Kansans roamed the streets wearing yellow sunflowers inscribed "Landon." The Texas delegation came out, all over again, for Landon...
...Faces. To seasoned political correspondents who have watched hard-eyed, cigar-chewing Old Guardsmen from Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio run Republican conventions for years, the pre-convention scene's most striking aspect was the upsurge of new Midwestern faces. Roly-poly Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kas. Gazette and broad-beamed Managing Editor Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star headed the contingent of Kansas journalists and political amateurs who buzzed importantly around Landon headquarters. Mostly men in their 40's who had brought their homebody wives along, they were frankly delighted at finding themselves...
Amendment. Another idea to excite the conventioneers also began in an editorial. Two days after the Supreme Court denied New York's right to set minimum wages for women workers (TiME, June 8), William Allen White came out in his Emporia Gazette for a platform plank favoring a constitutional amendment to overcome that ban. Clarioned he: "The Supreme Court has honestly even if tragically called our attention to the need of a power in government which now obviously is restricted. That need is the issue of the hour. The Republican convention must not sidestep it. ... The Republican Party must...
...always careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr. Harvey slipped into the Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved, though quite unofficial, scroll declaring...
...carry from Finland to French Somaliland two tons of TNT, 200 incendiary bombs, three airplanes and four machine guns for Emperor Haile Selassie's armies. The Santa Maria had got as far as Gibraltar when Haile Selassie fled his empire and the war was over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier in Morocco's International Zone. Before he could get his ship away, the port authorities ordered him to reload...