Word: alvan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard as an anti-anti-Semitic move during the Ku Klux rampage of 1922, for barring Negroes from freshman dormitories. He was internationally damned for his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1927 at the request of Massachusetts' worried Governor Alvan T. Fuller, LowelLand two others* reviewed the trial of the two anarchists, declared them fairly judged and, in effect, sent them to the electric chair amid worldwide uproar...
Pete Fuller, son of former Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller is making a stiff fight for the B team pivot post, but at present ranks behind Gardiner. Charlie Tarbell from Belmont Hill is a good fullback, but has Saturday competition to buck in Paul Perkins, Gershon Ross, Tom Cowen, and Wayne Johnson. From Wakefield High comes their co-captain Paul Lazzaro. He too, like Lee Flynn, is small, but speedy, and Harlow is looking for speed in this year's backfield, so he may yet crack the red jersey group...
Their commander, tough, spidery Major General Alvan Gillem, knows that half that art is teamwork. Says he: "There isn't a tank man alive who could operate a tank by himself, and there isn't a tank crew that could keep a tank operating without the help of the last little man with the last little monkey wrench. They all know that...
Then Painter Carroll's diaphanous women began to catch on. In 1930, John Carroll was named head of the painting department of Detroit's Arts & Crafts Society, where, lavishly paid by Patrons Edsel Ford and Alvan Macauley, he began to teach a worshipful flock of younger artists...
...Armored Force now has two armored corps, made up of two divisions of 390 tanks apiece. Previously only two of the divisions were organized into a corps, the three other Armored Divisions were independent units. Under the present reorganization the tankers will have two new bosses: Major General Alvan Gillem Jr., who used to command the Third Armored Division, will take over the newly formed Second Corps; chief of the First Corps will be tough, profane, gimlet-eyed Major General George S. ("Georgie") Patton Jr., variously known to his men as "Flash Gordon," "Old Blood and Guts," "the Green Hornet...