Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pearson & Allen. Washington's chit-chat columnists, Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, who broadcast a Merry-Go-Round of the Air, invited radio listeners to send in straw votes. Their question: "Should President Roosevelt be re-elected?" Their answers: 70% "yes"; 30% "no." Women were 3-to-1 for Roosevelt; men 2-to-1. Some 90% of the voters explained their reasons. Of the Roosevelt voters, 38% declared they liked the man, did not agree with all his policies-a fact that partly explains the difference between the Pearson-Allen and the Digest returns. Of those opposed to Roosevelt...
After he had consented to feed starving Belgium, Mr. Hoover borrowed Newsman Allen from AP to do his publicity. The Press, especially in the U. S., was promptly flooded with news of the prodigious feats of organization, diplomacy and greathearted endurance by which a modest U. S. engineer was keeping an entire nation alive. When Mr. Hoover went home to be U. S. Food Administrator, Ben Allen went with him. Their joint efforts added a new word, "Hooverize," to the national vocabulary, made Mr. Hoover and his food edicts an intimate part of the daily life of every man, woman...
...Allen did not share in his hero's glory as Secretary of Commerce or in the greater glory yet to come. What happened to the Hoover-Allen association has long been a subject of speculation among political observers. There were rumors of a blowup, a serious breach. These stories are now hotly denied by Ben Allen, and his friends testify that the only resentment he ever displayed in the years of separation was against those who he felt had shouldered him out of his place at Mr. Hoover's writing elbow. Ben Allen declares that he returned...
Three onetime champions and a group of able youngsters, however, supplied enough upsets and excitement. Chipper Jimmy Caras, always best on birthdays, celebrated his 25th by blanking Joe Procita, 125-to-0. Bland, bald-headed Bennie Allen, three-time champion, dropped one ball after another into the pockets, gave the boisterous onlookers their greatest thrill by making a straight run of 125. Finally, after two weeks of round-robin, the winner: Caras...
Smart Publishers Farrar & Rinehart have lined up a dozen-odd professional writers, given them carte blanche to be skittish. Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes...