Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Ed Kennedy, A.P. boss in Europe and veteran of 13 years with the A.P., got word that the Germans had announced the surrender over the Flensburg radio. He tried to reach Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's bumbling press chief, finally got to the chief U.S. censor. "I give you warning now,'' said Ed Kennedy, "that I am going to release the story. I see no further reason for SHAEF to withhold...
RHUBARB (301 pp.)-H. Allen Smith -Doubleday...
...Money. The son of a Gouverneur, N.Y. coal dealer, Noble was selling advertising back in 1913 when he saw an opportunity to make some big money. With a partner, J. Roy Allen, he bought the Life Savers business for $2,900 from a chocolate manufacturer who had no confidence in Life Savers' future. By shrewd advertising, they put Life Savers into the mouths of 100,000,000 people. By 1925, Partner Allen was able to retire with $3,300,000; in 1938 Ed Noble's Life Savers was valued...
...seeing a restaurateur presented with a whopping bill. For dodging payment of $2,872,766 in income taxes, Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's high-priced restaurant chain, Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $115,000. His partners-in-crime, Nephew E. Allen Lustig and Bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, were given three-and two-year terms, respectively. Hardly had Uncle Sam presented one bill to Henry Lustig than he reached in his pocket for another. Lustig and his corporations still owe the U.S. Treasury an additional $7,726,124 in taxes...
...summer camp is required before the commission is granted. All expenses are paid by the government and each man will receive the pay of the sixth grade of the army while at camp. Before the war, Harvard and Yale students went to a joint encampment at Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont, but McClure doubts if this will be continued...