Word: glens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the jack-pine hills of Idaho came the twang of a familiar guitar and the whine of an even more familiar baritone lustily singing: "From this valley they say you are going, / We will miss your sweet face and your smile." Glen Taylor, troubadour politician, ex-Senator (1944-50) and Henry Wallace's vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, had come home from self-imposed exile in California to ask a favor from the voters. Said Taylor: "I want to go back to Washington because I want...
...brace on his back, Taylor, with his 19-year-old son, Arod, went from house to house in a state where houses are far apart. He explained his brace to rapt audiences. Six years of sitting in a Senate seat had caused partial collapse of his backbone. Said Glen: "I gave my all for you people, sitting there in Washington. But now I've got a wonderful brace. And in the Senate the man who works the hardest is the one who does the most sitting. With this brace, I can outsit them...
...Glen Oaks, said he, had bought land for the apartments for less than $1,000,000 but got FHA-insured mortgages on it totaling $2,400,000. The large valuation was customary practice because FHA estimated the value of the land, not on the purchase price, but on what the improved land would be worth after the apartment was built on it. Gross was also permitted to put in an architect's fee of 5% and a builder's fee of 5%, the customary amounts. Since he was able to get an architect for only...
...Windfall. Levitt was followed to the stand by Builder Alfred Gross, who made no bones about the fact that he had reaped a windfall profit of $6,000,000, the largest uncovered by the Senate committee so far, on the $25-million Glen Oaks Village apartment houses in Queens, New York City. He explained how he-and other builders-had made such profits...
...Swedenborg's death, in 1772, there were no plans to form an association of his followers. But 16 years later a group of British Sweden-borgians formed the first Church of the New Jerusalem at Great Eastcheap, London, and as early as 1784 a London Scot named James Glen was preaching Swedenborgianism in Philadelphia and Boston...