Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knight Errant. In Carmel, Calif., the City Council heard Councilman Allen Knight defend local landlords, then learned its rent had been almost doubled...
...plant equipped to turn out 4.2-in. mortar shells. This company, the Erie Basin Metal Products Inc., did not then actually exist. But soon after Pearl Harbor the War Department gave Dr. Garsson's nonmachined firm a whopping order for shells. Meantime Henry Garsson had found two men-Allen B. Gellman and Joseph Weiss of Chicago-who had factories and machines but no war contracts...
...roly-poly George Edward Allen return to Washington after five weeks in the hospital and in Atlantic City. Harry Truman was mighty glad; there was no one he would rather have around than George. Congress was gone and there would be a lull, but he needed all the help, advice and laughs he could get. So it was good to have George back with the rest of the "gang...
...George. Washington has never seen anything quite like George Allen, who was born in Booneville, Miss, in 1896, who practiced law, wangled himself a commission in the Army in World War I, wangled a job in the hotel business, wangled an appointment as District Commissioner of Washington, D.C., and bounced up one day at the elbow of the President...
...Allen Smith has reason to like cats better than dogs. Before he turned to writing best-selling books (Low Man on a Totem Pole, Life in a Putty Knife Factory), he wrote newspaper features, including movie-star interviews. During that ordinarily harmless tour of duty, the late Lupe Velez once became so agitated that she threw a small brown dog at him. Now, at long last, Author Smith has written a novel about a cat, a large yellow alley cat called Rhubarb...