Word: allan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...present faculty, much more than a distinguished cluster of scholars, includes two Nobel Prizewinners (Physicists I. I. Rabi and Hideki Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis. Such men as Philosopher Irwin Edman, Critic Lionel Trilling and Classicist Gilbert Highet are full-fledged city celebrities. Economist Carl Shoup wrestles with city finances; Historian Harry Carman serves on the Board of Higher Education, and a slew of geologists and planners struggle with the city's water and traffic...
Texas' Governor Allan Shivers went further than Texan Dies. In a St. Louis speech, Shivers said he would ask the Texas legislature to make Communist Party membership a criminal offense: Punishment: death...
...million Alleghany Corp. in 1941. Young boldly demanded to be named chairman of the Central's board because he owned 100,200 of its shares (which he claimed was the largest individual holding) and because he had the support of the 100.000 shares owned by his associate. Allan P. Kirby, and could also vote the holdings (more than 100.000) of Alleghany Corp. Lined up against him were the Central's 15-man board of directors, headed by President William White, 57, crack railroader who knows his job from the ties...
...Dixon strikes the folksy note by chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...
...stock held by his Alleghany Corp. to Old Friend Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland industrialist and a longtime fellow castigator of New York banking interests. Young also sold his own C. & O. holdings, as did a small group of men around Young, including wealthy. Dime Store Heir Allan P. Kirby. Young also turned over his job as chairman of the C. & O. board to Eaton whose C. & O. holdings, with the 104,854 shares bought from Alleghany, swelled to 205,854 shares. Young, Kirby and four other C. & O. directors resigned from the board. This left Young and Kirby "free...