Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Epee: Bill Croach (B) lost to Capt. Amidon (B), 2-3, and to MacGregor (B), 1-3, and to Leif (B), 2-3, Lynn Brua (H) tied with Leif (B), 3-all, and beat Amidon (H), 3-2, and lost to MacGregor (B), 2-3. Art Allen (H) beat Rockwell (B), 3-2, and lost to Leif (B), 1-3, and beat Amidon...
Heir to Merrill Lynch's brokerage business was E. A. Pierce & Co., whose handsomely pompadoured, soft-spoken Edward Allen Pierce prides himself on operating the largest U. S. security & commodity brokerage chain: 40 offices in 38 cities, linked by 17,000 miles of private wires. To the rest of Wall Street, during the dead markets of recent years, Broker Pierce has been the No. 1 example of conspicuous luxury, operating on a nationwide overhead geared to forgotten two-and-three-million-share days. Ever since Depression II, Street sages have guessed at Pierce's losses, wondered when...
SINCE YESTERDAY - Frederick Lewis Allen-Harper...
...Frederick Lewis Allen's best-selling story of the 1920s, Only Yesterday (1931), the nation's readers took much the same pseudo-rueful pleasure as a man might get out of being reminded how he cut up at the Country Club that night in 1924 ("I never did any such thing!" etc.). In Since Yesterday, which is Mr. Allen's record of the 1930s, readers will probably find a more genuine pain in the pleasures of recollection...
...until 1935 did Mark Sullivan add his record of the '20s to the rich documentary fruitcake of Our Times.) Since Yesterday, however, is published after America in Midpassage by Charles and Mary Beard (TIME, May 22) and is in almost every way a slighter job. Yet Mr. Allen, although he has neither the historical grasp nor the mordant style of the Beards, has the advantage of doing his job in 346 pages to the Beards' 949. His story embraces neatly the scary and screwy decade from Sept. 3, 1929 to Sept...