Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regimen Harry Truman had staked out for himself when he first entered the White House. But it now revolves around a brand-new operating routine. The old days of government by cronies are gone, and so are most of the cronies (Jake Vardaman, Ed McKim, John Caskie Collet, George Allen, et al.). The President now has a new, tightly knit staff and a new administrative procedure which makes full use of his Cabinet...
...Princeton, ex-G.I. Allen F. Colley, 23, founded a Save Capitalism Committee. Its key to salvation: profit-sharing to make labor and capital work together. The president of a New York building materials company offered his firm as a laboratory to test the theory. Colley & Co. were also trying to sell the idea to neighboring colleges, hoped it would catch on as well as Princeton's once-famed Veterans of Future Wars...
...deep distaste and tongued his three-stick gum wad to the other side of his mouth. In the well-known nutmeg-grater tones, he announced: "For those of you who got caught in the crowd and swept in here-I would like to say that this is the Fred Allen show, and you still have eight minutes before we go on the air to get the heck out of here." They flailed helplessly in their seats...
...broadcast time the audience ("those hyenas") were weak with laughter. They were with him. They had been with him, all over the U.S., for 14 years. But never before this season has he had a greater volume of enthusiastic listeners. Twice this season, for the first time in Fred Allen's radio career, his show has ranked first in the Hooper telephone poll of listeners...
...Fred Allen Show (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Pug-uglies Max Rosenbloom and Max Baer...