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...lists names but no party affiliations, and drop that ballot into a sealed box. The man he chooses may live and vote in another constituency, but will certainly not be a lord, a member of the clergy, an employe of the government, a lunatic, an alien, or a government contractor...
...occupations of these TIME Perpetuals include lawyers (unsurprisingly, the largest group) bankers, educators, clergymen (including Cardinal Spellman), consular officials, members of the armed forces, a farmer, a retired blueberry grower, a clock maker, college professors, doctors, engineers, a textile manufacturer, a lithographer, a building contractor, a housewife-concert pianist...
...would not even add a jag to the city's skyline. No one planned soaring towers like 1932's Empire State, or sumptuously spaced units like Rockefeller Center. Now buildings were built for quick profits. "We're not in this business to build monuments," said one contractor...
...capable book, Barbed-Wire Surgeon). Japanese prison guards fractured his windpipe, broke one of his arms, blasted his ears. A year ago, convinced that Atlanta wasn't doing enough by the veterans, he borrowed more than $600,000 (most of it from FHA), teamed with a contractor friend and built a 140-unit project. This week the first 28 tenants moved in. After the ad appeared, Dr. Weinstein got 80 congratulatory calls, and "a couple of guys called me up and tried to talk tough. I don't know whether they were Klansmen or not. I gave them...
Sheldon won the Silver Star for gallantry on Guadalcanal and died later of complication from tropical diseases contractor in the South Pacific...