Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itch to tell all had spread among retired White House hands. In the Saturday Evening Post, gurgling, roly-poly George E. Allen turned up last week with a one-shot article on "My Two Years with Truman." By Allen's account the two years had been fun for Allen but not so much fun for his good friend Harry Truman-a man of "exaggerated modesty" who had inherited all the problems of the Roosevelt Administration...
...embarrass Truman's close friend, California Oilman Ed Pauley (wrote Allen), ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle filed the famed California oil tidelands suit. "Harold Ickes, after failing to get assurance from Truman that he could remain in the Cabinet indefinitely, used the Pauley case as an excuse for quitting in a blaze of righteous indignation...
...Easy, To explain how the President could have "ead Henry Wallace's Sept. 12. 1946 Madison Square Garden speech-which ran completely counter to the Truman foreign policy-and then told Wallace to go ahead, Allen talked fast but vaguely. "Truman had been genuinely fond of Wallace. . . . He was eager to convert Wallace to ... the necessity for firm dealing with the Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great...
...Irving S. Wright of New York's Post-Graduate Hospital reported that he had successfully treated more than 300 patients. Dr. Edgar V. Allen of the Mayo Clinic had used the two drugs in nearly 700 attacks of pulmonary embolism and venous thrombosis. Under previous treatments, by normal expectancy, 80 patients would have died. Dr. Allen's score: one death...
...recent months, as advertisers have slashed their radio budgets, Keystone's business has jumped into seven figures. In the past year the company has taken on 70 new affiliates; in the past month, ten. Such networkers as Burns & Allen, Lum & Abner, have gone on KBS platters to "fill the holes" in their network coverage. Come fall, Sillerman has hopes of signing Bing Crosby and Jack Benny...