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...bowler-hatted chimney sweep, Harry Cowley, 60, called "The Guv'nor," blew the lid off Britain's housing problem. In Brighton, jampacked seaside resort, a posse of 400 self-styled Vigilantes (all local war veterans), headed by Cowley, took the law into their own hands. Into three empty, habitable houses, they moved the families of servicemen. The moving was done at night, with hand barrows, in defiance of the law. But the tenants could not be ejected without lengthy eviction proceedings...
...occasional timely spurt of the old speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking ace of the Boston Bruins...
Undiscouraged, Hawley set rigs drilling in Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Arkansas and Louisiana. He blandly ignored gloomy geologic reports. In many cases he bet on his hunches. He put down 13 wells before he even struck gas-and that in small quantities. On his 22nd well, in Cowley County, Kansas, he finally struck oil. But it was a piddling 25 bbl. a day. Hawley kept as closemouthed on the cost of these wells as he generally is on all his business. But oilmen guesstimate that with the wells costing from $30,000 to $125,000 apiece, he must have lost...
This plan was first proposed in Washington last summer by a committee (set up by the Manpower Commission) under able young President W. H. Cowley of Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.). The Army quickly smacked it down. Now that the Army has what it wants (teenage draft, college work for soldiers), small colleges hope to get what they-and industry-need...
...Hounds. Some Congressmen were already baying on the trail of OFF. They had the help of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, a handy man with a stone, who now steadily threw rocks at OFF's Malcolm Cowley, an ex-New Republican. And one of the principal things that set the Congressmen baying was OFF's first publication, a grandiose 62-page, red-white-&-blue-printed Report to the Nation...