Word: allene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leon P. Brachman, Roger A. Cunningham, Elliot Forbes, Bernard D. Frank, Allen Greene, Bristol Hall, Charles Heidelberger, Clarence W. Hewlett, Jr., William Hodson, Jr., Gabriel Jackson, William B. Kehi, Harry E. Kinzie...
McGill was elected in 1930 to fill the unexpired term of Senator Charles Curtis, who resigned to become vice president. McGill's unsuccessful opponent in that election was former Governor Henry J. Allen, who had been appointed to the Senate the year before. In 1932, McGill's opponent was not Allen but former Governor Ben S. Paulen, whom he defeated by 26,000 votes out of nearly 700,000 cast...
...trying to "liberalize" their party, Roosevelt-hating Republicans rewarded Tammany's O'Connor for his long public service (eight House terms) by picking him as their party's nominee in the Gashouse district by majority of nearly 1,000 votes (out of 4,900 cast) over Allen Welsh Dulles, a young lawyer of considerable polish and attainments, but no political experience. Not for generations has this G.O.P. nomination been considered worth the red fire to illuminate its defeat, but with a Tammany Irishman carrying it, with perhaps 8,000 anti-Roosevelt Democrats swinging in behind the Republican...
Room Service (RKO) is John Murray's and Allen Boretz's outrageously funny farce about the exigencies of show business on a shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts...
...Manhattan gallery of Dali-sponsor Julien Levy, an exhibition of "surrealistic" paintings by Grade Allen, adept professional dope, included nitwit daubs entitled: Man with Mike Fright Moons over Manicurist, Dogs Gather on Street Corner to Watch Man-Fight, Gravity Gets Body Scissors on Virtue as Night Falls Upside Down...