Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plagued by the Harmattan wind from the Sahara Desert, whose parching breath cracks furniture and leaves books curled up. Some 15,000 freed American slaves and their descendants had established a ruling class. As late as 1930, a League of Nations commission discovered that Liberia's Vice President Allen Nathaniel Yancy himself was head of a ring of slavers who regularly sold native laborers to Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea. The women of Liberia's Wedabo tribe still sing...
...point when it headlines such people's insane accusations. I have my differences with Henry Wallace, but I will cheerfully forget them whenever such slimy characters as Mr. Steele creep out of the woodwork and start screaming "un-American," at one of the finest Americans of the present day. Allen H. Barton Chairman, HLU Summer Exec Leverett...
Housing Project. In East Peoria, Ill., someone gently dismantled and took away Earl Allen's prefabricated house...
...months ago Coward ran into a bright young radioman with a paying plan. Why not transcribe a Coward show, and send it to places where it would pull down handsomer rates than BBC can afford? The notion looked sound: for some months, effervescent, 26-year-old Harry Allen Towers has been cutting transcriptions featuring top British artists. The transcriptions have blank spots for commercials and are distributed to sponsors throughout the Empire...
...appearance of the quotation to a long range Yale publicity coup, which was climaxed by under-rating the Bulldogs for the Thames regatta two weeks ago. Bolles had made some such remark, the rumor ran, at a coaches' meeting prior to the Princeton race and Yale's mentor, Allen Walz, carried it to the sports writers without Bolles being aware of the deed...