Word: allens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Allen, good Kansan and sponsor of the Kansas Industrial Court, was not so optimistic. He termed Russia " the industrial paradise of idleness." He found the peasants returning to the church; he found women wearing furs and jewels once more. But he declared that if American relief is stopped " 50,000 helpless people in the Black Sea region alone will perish...
...Kansas Industrial Court Law, famed handiwork of former Governor Henry J. Allen, received a severe blow when the U. S. Supreme Court reversed one of its findings. The Constitutionality of the Kansas law was not directly ruled upon. The ease was one in which the Industrial Court had ruled that Charles Wolff Packing Co., of Topeka, must increase the wages of its employees, although the company was not then operating at a profit...
...governor Allen nevertheless does not take the view that the Supreme Court's decision renders the Industrial Court powerless. Said he: " I rather expected an adverse decision because I believe when the Industrial Court took the action in question it was placing that section of the law on thin ice. . . . There was no question of emergency. The whole Kansas law was written around the emergency point. This does not take away from the Industrial Court any of its anti-picketing powers nor the power to make wage decisions in an emergency...
...this summer the largest number of men ever to test political acoustics from its platforms. Following the trail blazed long ago by William Jennings Bryan will be: Senators Watson (Ind.), Harrison (Miss.), Willis (Ohio), Brookhart (Ia.), Lenroot, (Wis.); Representatives Dickinson (Ia.), Shreve (Pa.), Tincher and Hoch (Kan.); Ex-Governors Allen (Kan.), Brough (Ark.), Harding (Ia.), Carlson (Colo.), Ex-Senator Gore (Okla.); Ex-Representatives Patrick Kelley (Mich.), Martin A. Morrison (Ind.), Jeannette Rankin (Mont.)-first Congresswoman. Old favorites include Josephus Daniels and William C. Redfield (Secretary of Commerce under Mr. Wilson). Besides Miss Rankin, there will be two other women...
...William Allen White: "It is more fun than a box of monkeys?this satire, this tragedy, this essay in morals, this comedy of manners, together with a full and complete political program for the Left Wing of the Philosophical Anarchists. Men Like Gods is q good book for a bad time in the world...