Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point, with his 7,400 readers' tongues hanging out, Publisher Allen wiped the lotus off his chin, and confessed that there was another reason for putting an end to his 14-year-old newspaper. "To a large extent," he added bitterly, "we are quitting because we could no longer endure the conditions and demands imposed on us by the International Typographical Union. . . . They handed us an ultimatum which is no longer, by their express stipulation, to be known as a contract, but will henceforward be known as 'Conditions of Employment' (TIME, Sept...
...were never one for that sort of thing." He had even offered the News to his I.T.U. employees, he said, if they would just pay him I.T.U. wages in return. They turned him down, so he was calling it quits. His printers could shift for themselves; Publisher Allen had sold his equipment for more than $50,000, was taking his wife and heading for the Caribbean in a surplus Marine Corps plane he had bought...
...Washington Columnist Robert S. Allen...
...C.I.O. Steelworkers Union came in-after a two-year struggle-and in 1944 the Rockefellers sold out to Manhattan's Allen & Co., investment brokers. By 1946, C. F. & I. had a new president husky, Republic Steel-trained Carl Ward Meyers, himself the son of an Ohio steelworker. He thought that management and labor should "get together, study, talk and understand...
...consulted 500 reference books and used up a quart of ink. Readers will find the result a brackish mixture of Northern blood and Southern guts, held in solution by a lively plot. House Divided lacks the nostalgia of MacKinlay Kantor's Long Remember, the flinty humor of Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, the sexy folderol of Gone With the Wind. In sticking closer to the pedestrian facts of history, it is more convincing-if less exciting-than its predecessors...