Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrait of Mrs. Coolidge may have cost the artist more than most painters earn in a lifetime. When Representative Sol Bloom, director general of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, sponsored a resolution commissioning Mr. Christy to paint a picture called The Signing of the Constitution for $35,000, Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission." Other Congressmen, quite willing to pose...
...lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan England. Still popular among them are such hoary items as Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allen, Robin Hood and Little John...
...wallowed tipsily in taxi tests, thrice dipped a wing in the water, twice had to be towed in. One glowering afternoon last week, her port mooring-ring snapped and the wind-tossed ship could not be held to her mooring. As far as Veteran P.A.A. Test Pilot Edmund Allen could see, there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step, wake boiling behind...
Scarecrow Designer (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-Red) Sue Willa discusses her art on Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight...
...step forward and two back. In New York City, Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. Inc. and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Inc. advertised American Television Corp. receiving sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...