Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stepping into the Louisiana Governorship left vacant last week by the death of Oscar Kelly Allen (TIME, Feb. 3), James A. Noe chose as one of his first official acts the appointment of Mrs. Huey Pierce Long to the U. S. Senate vacancy left by the death of her husband. He also promised that the Democratic State Central Committee would promptly bequeath her the nomination which Governor Allen had just won to serve out the remaining year of the late "Kingnsh's" term. Said Governor Noe: "This is the proudest moment of my life." Said Senator John H. Overton...
...economy as reactionary. They seem to think willingness to throw other people's money around without any consideration of value received is a peculiar sign of a pure heart. We must subordinate material rewards and enthrone the things of the spirit. "I am for Landon," declared William Allen White. "As a young man he followed my banner and as an old man I am going to follow his." "Stirring!" cried Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir. "An important contribution to American history!" exclaimed Ogden Mills. "HE BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!" screamed the Hearst Press, Governor Landon's chief journalistic...
Green is considered to have the best chance of the four to come out a winner but he will have his hands full when he goes to the mark with Sam Allen, national collegiate title holder. Last week at the Millrose games, Allen won the sixty yard hurdles, the first time that he had ever raced on a board track. It is expected, however, that the shorter distance in the Boston Garden will slow him down...
...addition to Allen there is Phil Good of Bowdoin, who is about tops in New England and Johnny Donovan of Dartmouth. These two runners finished second and third in the Millrose games, but Green has outbreasted these two in the race for the tape in past years. Inability to practice the necessary amount during the exam period may have slowed him down, however...
Gaunt Philippa Allen, social worker, testified: "Dry drilling was the cause of the dense silica dust. It would stop when State mine inspectors entered the tunnel. Men acted as lookouts to warn of their presence. As a result inspectors testified that the tunnel was practically dust free. Mrs. Charlie Jones of Gamoca was the .first to find what was killing the men." Mrs. Jones, according to Miss Allen, begged money along the road to pay for x-rays of the lungs of her son Shirley who asked on his deathbed to "be opened up to see if I didn...