Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willard Hotel sat Columnist Drew Pearson (Washington Merry-Go-Round) and his lawyer. In Room 415 was General MacArthur's lawyer. Thus was the stage set for settlement of the $1,750,000 libel suit filed by the General last summer against Columnists Pearson & Robert S. Allen for picturing him as a swaggering, supersensitive strutter who pulled social and political wires to advance himself in the service (TIME, May 28). Co-defendants were United Feature Syndicate which distributed the Merry-Go-Round, and Hearst's Washington Times which printed...
Small change compared to the wage scales of a film company like Loews' were the other salaries listed by the SEC. Republic Steel upped President Tom M. Girdler from $117,420 to $129,372 per year, two vice presidents from $58,700 to $64,600. President Edwin Madison Allen of Mathieson Alkali worked for $86,700 in both 1933 and 1934. Donald L. Brown of reorganized United Aircraft will be paid $45,000. Salaries substantially the same in both years included President Walter Cabot Baylies of Boston's Edison Electric Illuminating: $32,000; Vice President Theodore D. Crocker of Northern...
ISRAFEL Hervey Allen Farrar & Rinehart...
...readers to whom Poe is still a mistily mysterious figure will find in either of these biographies a straightforward, authoritative account of his tragic life. Author Hervey Allen's Israjel, originally published (1926) in two volumes, is generally regarded as the standard life of Poe. For a thoroughgoing, impartial but humane portrait, complete with all relevant details of background, Israjel gives the reader all he either desires or deserves to know...
Last week Editor Blossom pronounced the experiment a success. In the first month the black seal of an accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...