Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, who with tears coursing down his cheeks, gave out the first official statement on the Dictator's death: "It . . . marks the passing of the greatest hero in the fight for the common rights of all the people of America.'' "The Kingfish" had no truer friend than Oscar Allen. Twelve years Long's senior, he had grown up with him in Winn Parish. Waxing wealthy in oil and merchandise, he had staked Long to his political start in 1918 when Long ran for a place on the Louisiana Railroad Commission. As Governor, Oscar Allen...
...Broadcast" lacks the novelty of the last "Big Broadcast." It is obvious, however, that the producers have attempted to make up the shortcoming in big names. It is somewhat disconcerting to the inveterate moviegoer to see such stars as Ruggles and Boland, Amos and Andy, Burns and Allen, Ethel Merman and Jessica Dragonette doing bits...
...dictatorship over the State. On the floor there had been the customary brawling and cursing as the "Kingfish" strutted up & down the aisle giving orders to his henchmen. As the Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always, by his bodyguards. A young man in a white suit, lurking in a corner, stepped out into the Senator's path, shoved a small revolver against his right side, pulled the trigger. There was a muffled explosion. One of the Long bodyguards grappled...
...Morgan partners are Harold Stanley, William Ewing and Henry Sturgis Morgan, second son of the firm's aging head. The two Drexel partners are Perry E. Hall and Edward H. York Jr. Also leaving are two key Morgan employes, Manager John Maurice Young of the bond department and Manager Allen Northey Jones of the statistical department...
...chambermaid (Marion Davies) as their "original," turns out to be worth considerably less than the purchase price. Under Director Mervyn LeRoy, whose motto seems to have been "When in doubt, shout," Page Miss Glory becomes the noisiest comedy in months, with only Patsy Kelly as a morose chambermaid and Allen Jenkins as a kidnapper managing to give credible performances...