Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many Days, by Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, tried to ignore the speech being made by Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore (''The Man") Bilbo. For 27 hours and 45 minutes before Senator Bilbo arose, the Senate floor had been occupied by Louisiana's bushy-haired little Allen J. Ellender. For 14 days, the U. S. .Senate had been occupied with a filibuster by a determined group of Southern Senators against the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill...
...door opened behind the bench. Out strode the black-robed members of the first of the new three-judge Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white-haired District Judge John J. Gore and earnest District Judge John D. Martin followed. Since November 15 they had been hearing the plea of 18 Southern utility companies that the Tennessee Valley Authority be enjoined from the sale of electric power...
...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
...Vincent, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr, University of Chicago's Vice President William Benton and Professor Thomas V. Smith, Wharton School of Finance's Dean Joseph H. Willits, TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce, Emporia Gazette's Editor William Allen White, Fordham's President Robert I. Gannon, former U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde, New York University's Chancellor Harry W. Chase...
Four Harvard hurdlers competed in their event Saturday night. Roger Schafer '41, and Sherman Hoar '40 were put out in their trial heats running against intercollegiate champion Jack Donovan and world champion Sam Allen respectively. Mason Fernald '40 was second in his trial heat, and was put out in the first heat of the semi-finals, but likewise failed to service the semi-finals. In the finals Olympic winner Forest (Spect) by Donovan of Dartmouth. Big disappointment of this event was Sam Allen, last in the finals...