Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Begun and completed in the past tense was the article William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., wrote about President Coolidge in the August (1928) Plain Talk. Excerpts...
...Henry Justin Allen was three years old. But 1,000 miles or so west of Warren County, Pa., where Baby Henry was learning to talk, a young telegraph operator named Edward Rosewater was finding life unusually busy. Within a few months he became 30 years old, a father and a newspaper owner. The baby he named Victor. The newspaper he called the Omaha...
William Randolph Hearst kept on naming his newspapers the American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
Last week, Publisher Updike announced the sale of the Omaha Bee-News to Publisher Hearst. For the Bee-News, his 25th newspaper, Publisher Hearst paid between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, and persuaded Henry Justin Allen to come up from Kansas to edit...
...Jewish player to pull in the New York crowds. But baseball games are won at bat and it was batters the critics talked about most on the Fourth of July, singling from among them the two leading their respective leagues on that day. On that day Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was batting close to .414 for Washington. Sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, sharp-eyed, amiable, fast, lazy, and a tireless autographer of balls, fond of track athletics and very poor at them, Goslin has proved himself for a long time a fine batter. Last spring he bet "Memphis Bill" Terry, Giant...