Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Affairs Committee reported out its $590 million relief bill (including a $67 million cut in the Administration's program, a $60 million dividend for China). Before it could reach the House floor, it had to be routed through the Rules Committee, headed by Illinois' Isolationist Leo Allen. The Rules Committeemen had their crowbars poised and ready...
Gathered around their big, green-topped table, they ganged up on the committee report. Chairman Allen was frankly against any aid at all for what one committeeman called Europe's "armies of mendicants and loafers...
...longer made fashionable copy but remained like a departing storm cloud, high above the year's fiction. One of the better pieces of writing about it was Allen R. Matthews' The Assault, a terse account of hitting the beach at Iwo Jima. Worth reading were John Home Burns's The Gallery, a novel of a G.I.'s experiences in Naples, Charles Christian Wertenbaker's story of the French Forces of the Interior (Write Sorrow on the Earth), Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair...
Dozens of divisional and regimental histories were in print or preparation. Many were dedicated to the proposition that "our outfit won the war single-handed." A pretentious quickie with this theme was Newspaperman Robert Allen's Patton-worshiping history of the Third Army, Lucky Forward. Patton's own War As I Knew It was much better written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that...
Proffered by the 1948 Album Board, the Prize Fund consists of a profit earned by the '43 yearbook under Reed's direction, Eric Larrabee '43, announced yesterday in New York that the first board of judges will include Frederick Lewis Allen, editor of Harper's Magazine, Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation...