Word: logan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Bardstown, Ky. (pop.: 1,767) last week a local legend was proudly celebrated as a national fact. Kentucky's rotund Senator Logan made a speech and ladies dressed in crinolines tittered and played hostess in "Federal Hill," the old home of Judge John Rowan. Bardstown believers were commemorating the birthday of a Rowan relation, Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster...
...worker and War correspondent for the Kansas City Star, editor and publisher of the Post in 1919-21, he has three sons in journalism: Burris Jr., literate Harvardman, interpreter of the late great Thomas Fferdy and now sports cartoonist for the New York Journal; Paul, adman, and Logan, newsman, on the Denver Post. Dr. Jenkins publishes The Christian (weekly), syndicates "The Drift of the Day'' in 15 Midwestern newspapers. With a journalistic sense such as has earned many a less wise and earnest churchman the reputation of being a fool, he fills his Community Church to overflowing...
...Senator Logan: I do not think any Member of the U. S. Senate should be allowed to practice law. ... So far as money and property are concerned, I suspect I am the poorest man in the Senate. . . . But I would find some other way of making a living without accepting fees from those who have business with the Congress of the U. S. or I would go home and resign...
Nobody was greatly pleased by the Administration's latest airmail plans unless it was the small independent operators who thought they saw their chance to get into the field. Democratic Senators O'Mahoney, Logan, McGill and Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week...
...determined. Senator Hugo Black, the head of the committee investigating air mail contracts, sat in the front row. Other front seats were taken by other legal lights of the Senate-Lawyers King of Utah, McCarran of Nevada, Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings of Delaware. Most of them at one time or another had sat on State or Federal benches. For a moment they sat in solemn silence while a clerk announced that the House had passed and asked...