Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general manager, Boss Brown drafted tall, jut-jawed Chester Bowles, 42, head of Manhattan's potent advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, Connecticut manager of OPA. Yaleman Bowles was sailing off Cape Cod when his appointment was announced, had to be hunted down and called ashore by the Coast Guard. His experience with the OPA in Connecticut had taught him just how much the public will stand, he said: he would try to do his best...
...will not divulge his plans, but talk has it that he won't be far outside the 50 mile limit--in fact, at a famous honeymoon lodge on a well known "Cape not far away. On second thought, no one could possibly bother him during the weekend--for the place is over 50 miles from this station, and none of our boys ever go that far. (The Regimental Officer keeps telling himself). So Mel, since we can not go with you, we wish you good luck and all the happiness you so well deserve...
Massachusetts' florid-faced, iron-grey Charles L Gifford, 72, a Representative from Cape Cod for 22 years, told the House just when a Congressman can be fearless: "It seems Wendell Phillips once said that when a statesman, socalled, arrives at 70 and when he no longer has any hope of being President, you can get the truth...
...business, where the children waited on tables, the parents cooked, and the daily cash intake disguised their poverty. Counting the money on Sunday night, Louise planned to enlarge the restaurant to support the greenhouse. The greenhouse failed, with liabilities of $72,000. The Piersons bought a soda fountain on Cape Cod, built it into a nightclub. One Saturday night at one minute past 12, it was raided...
When Boston racketeers tried to force them into selling policy slips, the Piersons left the Cape...