Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pull the trigger and hang on forever. Long before last week's primary it had been decided who among the Long survivors were going to get the benefit of this election device. In view of faithful stooge service, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January 1937 to serve out Long's unexpired Senate term. The full six-year term was to be given State Speaker of the House Allen J. Ellender. Best job of all, that of Governor, was parceled out to plump young Judge Richard Leche of the State Court of Appeals...
This week, however, Death once more accomplished what anti-Longsters had been unable to. Of cerebral hemorrhage died Senate-nominee Allen, 54, who had announced his main object in Washington would be to demand an investigation of the assassination of the man on whose political coattails he had ridden...
...Dvorak, Patsy Kelley, and Fred Allen all contribute their bits with considerable success and both Paul Whiteman and Rubinoff do bits in the gubernatorial contest about which the story is centered. Powell is drafted by the party bosses to take the place of their drunken candidate who is played in the true manner of the nickleodeon by Raymond Walburn. Powell sings his way into the hearts of the voters and then gains their confidence by exposing his own backers as a bunch of crooks. It seemed to make no difference to him that he had promised to keep the arrangement...
...choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled head. With such an enormous good companion as Anthony...
...Thornty Brown is definitely confined with a cold, Dick Clafflin and Jim Roberts are sure starters on defense. Sophomores Traff Hicks and Russ Allen will be the alternates...