Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since 1952 there has been uneasy quiet in the state organization. A contest for power in 1956 between the backers of Vice President Richard Nixon and the supporters of Senator William Knowland seemed to be building up. Governor Knight, who never got much help from the old Bill Knowland-Earl Warren alliance, was expected to be for Nixon. As it turned out, Goody was for Goody...
...late Earl of Yarborough, for whose family title the whist hand without honors was supposedly named...
...Indiana mortgage broker, who made consistent profits on federal housing deals, ranging up to $400,000 on a $50,000 investment, made no profit when he sold half an interest in a Fort Wayne apartment project for $7,500 to his good friend and penthouse neighbor, the late R. Earl Peters, then Indiana FHA commissioner...
Compensatory Fees. For the first time a play-by-play account of how one of the windfall deals worked was furnished by the contractors themselves. Three Washington builders-Herman W. Hutman, Earl J. Preston and Bryan Gordon Jr.-told how they got $13,846,000 in FHA-insured loans to put up the Shirley-Duke apartments in Alexandria, Va. To meet FHA requirements that the sponsor must have put in 10% of the estimated cost of the project, the builders reported that 1) they had spent $750,000 for architect's fees instead of the $63,000 they actually...
...stately homes of England, perhaps the stateliest is Chatsworth, a vast Palladian palace set on 50,000 acres of park and woodland, which for generations has been the family seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, whose family name is Cavendish. The first earl, who was one of Henry VIII's bullyboys, began amassing the huge family fortune by taking over some of the prize abbey lands confiscated during Henry's fight with Rome. The Devonshires came to epitomize the British landed aristocracy, and became famous for their arrogant eccentricities...