Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were some of the 20,000 complaints which have poured in upon Louisiana's curly-haired Senator Allen Joseph Ellender, henchman of the late Huey Long and his successor in Washington. Allen Ellender lacks the Kingfish's political potency and likewise his flair for publicity. But last year he struck a workable vein of publicity when he agitated for a special Senate committee to investigate injustices in Civil Service promotions. He got his committee and $2,500 to finance it. Last week his hearings made headlines in capital dailies. His theme: Why pretty girls get ahead...
Ormandy of lacking "poetry, imagination, subtlety and humor." Two other men resigned in sympathy. Said the orchestra's manager, curly-haired Socialite Alfred Reginald Allen: "Things aren't like they used to be." He resigned too. With its once-remunerative radio dates gone, and its budget badly off balance, outlook for the orchestra seemed squally. Leopold Stokowski preserved his beautiful calm. He purred: "If Philadelphia is solidly behind our orchestra, the disturbing influences can be stopped. If I can do anything to help, I will be so glad." At week's end it looked as though Heavyweight...
SYDNEY A. ALLEN Philadelphia...
...William Allen White, editor of the Emporia, Kansas "Gazette", and one of America's most famous newspapermen, will give three public lectures in the New Lecture Hall, on April 24, April...
...rich Oklahoma City utilitarian named Hubert Hudson sent him into the fertile, feudal Rio Grande Valley to run three newspapers, the Brownsville Herald, Valley Star (at Harlingen) and Monitor (at Me Allen). When he gave nationwide publicity to a King Ranch mystery, the famed Blanton case (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), South Texas thought Magee would "bust the Valley wide open." But soon he turned to more prosaic crusades in which his backer was interested: stabilization of the $125,000,000 citrus industry, improvement of the water supply. He became a worker for the Methodist Church...