Word: owsley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alvin Mansfield Owsley of Dallas, Tex., onetime (1922-23) National Commander of the American Legion, resigned last week as Franklin Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark & Iceland "for personal reasons." Reason construed by other friends of John Nance Garner: to help the Stop-Roosevelt movement...
...army, that England was the chief beneficiary of Semmes's exploits. For the assistance given the Confederacy by British shipping interests, as well as for a definitive criticism of Confederate and Northern policy, let Readers Semmes, Semmes, et al. consult King Cotton Diplomacy by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Southern-born Professor of history at Vanderbilt University...
...Stern (H) defeated S. S. Greeley, 15-13, 15-10, 11-15, 15-7; W. C. Ramsey (LIB) defeated N. R. Gidding, 16-14, 12-15, 15-10, 12-15, 18-16; J. C. Gildden (H) defeated C. H. Owsley...
...year ending July 31. Of its expenses a major administrative item is $22,000 a year to the National Commander ($10,000 salary, $12,000 expenses). At least four Legion Commanders have used the post as a springboard to major-league political jobs. Hanford MacNider (1921) and Alvin Owsley (1922) became U. S. Ministers. Paul V. McNutt (1928) became Governor of Indiana, is now High Commissioner to the Philippines. Louis Arthur Johnson (1932) is Assistant Secretary...
Their Derby almost spoiled, liquor men headed by full-faced, mustached Owsley Brown, president of Brown-Formon Distillery Co. and chairman of the Distilled Spirits Institute, penned telegrams to Governor Merriam asking veto of the measure. Joining in the protest barrage last week were the West Coast's two Governors Martin (Charles of Oregon. Clarence of Washington). At week's end California's Merriam still had the bill on his desk, called a conference of objectors to hear their views...