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EPHRAIM Brown was back in Chog's Cove. Four-five years ago, he had shipped aboard the privateer Glimpse, he had taken leave of Sue. He recalls; "Wall, I got to go aboard now, got to be going. Take care o' yourself, Eph. I will; don't forget me Sue. I won't. Wanting to kiss her and afraid to do it." Four-five years was a long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said...
...allotment of Federal loans for low-cost housing up from $22,165,000 to $34,942,000 when he tentatively approved four more building projects. They were: $5,184,000 to Hillside Housing Corp. for some 115 apartment houses in The Bronx, N. Y.; $2,965,000 to Hallets Cove Garden Homes, Inc. for 31 apartment houses on the Queens bank of New York's East River; $4,460,000 to the Community Plan Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to replace 750 slum buildings with 200 new houses; $168,000 to a Raleigh corporation to build apartments...
...most of his successors), celebrated the end of his term by borrowing money from the State to go on a vacation. The next Oklahomans heard of him, he and his family had settled down to a life of wealth on a half-million dollar estate at Glen Cove, L. I. Having been for a time personal attorney to Oil man Harry Sinclair, he became the head of Oklahoma oil interests valued at $70,000,000, helped organize Middle States Oil Corp., gambled in oil stocks. His bub ble broke when Middle States went into receivership. The courts investigated, dis covered...
Portland was skipped. Sons Franklin Jr. and John got aboard at Chandler's Cove, ten miles farther up the coast. There, too, the Democratic women of Maine gave the President a ship's clock which would go into the White House study...
...Wilfred Harris of West Roxbury, Howard Allen Hoffman of Newark, New Jersey, Alvin Josephy, Jr., of New York City, Francis Keyes of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, William Davis Locke of Concord, Deric Nusbaum of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Charles Eliot Pierce of Milton, Edwin Howard Baker Pratt of Glen Cove, New York, Gardner Edward Prouty, Jr., of Littleton, Joseph Foster Robbins of Weston, George Thorn Skinner of North Wales, Pennsylvania, and Robert Stevenson Wolcott of Milton...