Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style was criticized by Republican Herbert C. Hoover, who himself is no great radiorator, Republican Thomas E. Dewey goes to New York University's Speech Teacher Richard C. Rorden to brush up his microphone technique, reported "Daily Washington Merry-go-Round's" Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. A baritone before he was a politician, Candidate Dewey is generally regarded as a professionally polished, dramatic broadcaster...
Next morning, Stuart was having a milk shake in Leslie's Drugstore. In walked Constable Amos Allen, berated him for his editorial. Stuart said he would write as he saw fit, turned away. Then, according to Stuart, he was slugged three times with a blackjack. He locked his arms around Allen's neck and grappled with him on the drugstore floor. Spectators pulled them apart, sent Stuart to a hospital across the Ohio in Ironton...
Harvard Club of New Jersey: John A. Carpenter, of Boonton; John L. Felmeth, of Elizabeth; Allen W. Greene, of Passaic; and Harvey P. Sleeper Jr. of Short Hills...
...Arkansas Traveler (Paramount) carries a dedication, quoted from LIFE, to "William Allen White ... a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense." Unsentimental cinemaddicts, however, will perceive that the real purpose of the picture is not so much to pay tribute to that celebrated Kansan as to carry its star, Bob Burns, a step closer to the peculiar niche of public approbation once occupied by the late Will Rogers...
...kind of hobo ex machina, Bob Burns arrives by freight train in a town resembling Emporia, Kans., takes up residence in the county jail at the invitation of the kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions...