Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisely, but Too Well. In Brookings, S.D., trustees of the Church of Christ petitioned the circuit court to keep Mr. & Mrs. Allen R. McMillan from attending services, because they disrupted worship by shouting "amen" too loudly and often...
More & more the President has let George do more & more important tasks-from prodding the Democratic leadership in Congress to masterminding Administration projects. The Allen hand has been in many of the President's recommendations to Congress. Few Truman statements or speeches reach the mimeograph machine without Allen's O.K. Lately, to the vexation of Democratic National Committeemen, Allen has been consulted more & more on appointments to important posts...
...Allen, who is a vice president of the Home Insurance Co. (reportedly at $50,000 a year), got chummy with Harry Truman when he traveled with him in the 1944 campaign. Allen was then secretary of the Democratic National Committee. He was one of the first to whom Harry Truman turned after Franklin Roosevelt's death. Allen knew intimately many men whom the new President hardly knew at all, such as Harry Hopkins and Sam Rosenman...
...George Allen has inevitably made powerful enemies. He has lately been the target of quiet attacks by men high in Democratic councils. So far they have been unable to throw at him anything more damaging than the fact that they do not like him. And Harry Truman obviously does...
Actually, the Courier is far from being what the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette was in William Allen White's prime. But it is a representative, small U.S. daily; a successful, homely, friendly pillar of the community...