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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...
...GOLD ever mined in California is not worth a single year's rainfall," said California's onetime Governor Earl Warren, now U.S. Chief Justice. To many Westerners the Federal Government's chief reason for existence is to provide water. The Government, in this instance, means Secretary McKay's Interior Department, which is responsible for reclamation...
...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...