Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thereafter, for it was consistently kept out of the House by the Banking and Currency Committee. In spite of the efforts of Senator Tobey in the emergency summer session, the House blockade remained unbroken; Jesse Wolcott, Chairman of the House Banking Committee, Speaker Martin, Majority Leader Halleck, and Chairman Allen of the Rules Committee absolutely refused to allow its consideration...
...after suffering a series of dizzy spells, Allen quit radio for a year. During his vacation he went to Hollywood to make Love Thy Neighbor, and returned with a few Alienisms on the West Coast. Sample: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange...
...Pearson takes in about $350,000 a year, and, after taxes and necessarily heavy expenses (including a cut for Robert S. Allen, no longer his partner but still part owner of the column), keeps about a tenth...
...After Allen went off to war in 1942, some of the steam went out of the Merry-Go-Round, but it never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that...
...Drew and Cissy's daughter Felicia got a friendly divorce. ("He wanted me to be too domestic," says Felicia. "I'm not much for pressing pants." Grandfather Pearson still dotes on their daughter Ellen and her year-old son Drew.) Cissy and Pearson split over politics: Pearson & Allen became too New Dealish for Cissy's taste. Mrs. Patterson not only threw the column out of her Times-Herald, but fired Movie Reviewer Luvie Pearson out of spite...