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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...
...none of this Guv'mint dough...
...farms in the Middle West, at dealers' stables, in the ranch country of Texas and the Northwest, it's usually a big day when the "guv'-ment buyers" come by. They are officers from the Remount depots and area stations. Remount's buyers travel some 50,000 miles a year over highways and byways, up the creek forks, in fields, pastures, cactus and brush. Sellers know these men want a sturdy, clean-footed, straight-legged horse that "travels right" (straight, no pacers), has good bone, short backs for Army saddles, that they prefer a horse that...
...Marvelous!" exclaimed Minnesota's President Guv Stanton Ford. "Beautiful!" said Walter A. Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Said the university administration, anticipating outcries from frugal Minnesotans: "It costs no more to buy purple chairs than dull brown ones...
...Guv'ment ain't to answer...