Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulging Waistline." The other thing to understand about U.S. politics, says Author Allen, is political loyalty, which is "a special kind of virtue ... In a field of activity where the outs are forever on the hunt for some way of getting in; the ins must herd together for mutual protection, rumps together and horns presented to the would-be intruders...
Faithful Democrat Allen himself provides a case in point. He is an almost reverent admirer of Dwight Eisenhower who, George declares, refused the Republican nomination because "he didn't think it would be wise of the American people to pick as President a man they knew only as a military leader." If the Republican Party had gotten Ike, George avows, it "would have had a candidate worthy of its Abraham Lincoln tradition." Would George have voted for him? Not on your life. George Allen is first and last a party man. Politics are politics. At all costs, the herd...
Last week Tito was tightening the Yugoslav belt. The third of the population which carries ration cards had its bread cut by 10%. The quotas of grain which each peasant community is required to sell to the government were sliced by an overall 43%. Reported U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen to Washington: "There will be serious starvation...
...selection of the reading and illustrations that had made it famed. (It also ran some of the early testimonial ads that had helped pay the way, e.g., "Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, rides a Dayton Bicycle.") The idea of the issue, said Editor in Chief Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen, was "to do an historical survey without making it look like an historical survey." Thanks to a careful culling of yellowed Harper's files and a series of essays on the U.S. scene through the century by Bernard DeVoto, Gerald Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt, Editor Allen achieved a nostalgic...
Harper's occasionally took note of some of the social evils of the growing nation. However, as Editor Allen points out in his review of Harper's own century, the magazine then had "the tone of an aristocrat reminding other aristocrats of the regrettable conditions among the unfortunate if picturesque members of the lower orders." Thus an article in 1873, entitled The Little Laborers of New York City," unemotionally reported that of the 100,000 children working in the factories many were permitted "to take home enough material to do extra work, after the regular ten-hour...