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...mortgage was a cause of long bitterness between the two men. Webster's wife and two daughters forced him to live far beyond his meager means, and he had borrowed heavily from Parkman, the largest loan coming in 1847, when he had mortgaged all his personal property for a loan of $2000. Included in the property listing was Webster's fine collection of minerals. The next year, still in need of money, he approached Parkman's son-in-law, Shaw, and offered to sell him the collection for $1200. Shaw had no use for a mineral collection, and told Webster...
Several times the Schrievers moved, eking out a meager living, until in 1923 Mrs. Schriever got a job as housekeeper to a wealthy San Antonian who set the Schriever family up on a bit of his property beside the twelfth green of the Brackenridge Park golf course. Here the family developed a profitable sideline by opening a refreshment stand, selling home-cured ham sandwiches, Bavarian cheeses and soft drinks to the passing golfers. Ben hurled himself at his schoolwork, was a bear at mathematics, graduated from high school at 16 in the National Honor Society. In his spare time...
Lean, blue-eyed Captain Moureau, 37, was district government officer in Tar-jicht, Morocco, a district the size of Massachusetts but with a meager population of tribesmen, camels and sheep. He ruled his desert strip so successfully and was liked by its people so well that he stayed on after the French withdrew from Morocco. Then the Moroccan "Army of Liberation" came to pillage Tarjicht, and nine months ago Captain Moureau disappeared. But the desert has its verbal grapevine, and over this came, piece by piece, news of Captain Moureau's fate: emasculated, both arms broken, he was, when...
...Council has four alternatives. 1.--It should consider whether or not domestic grants of any kind should be given out. The budget is meager enough as it is without reapportioning funds extorted from Freshmen to students who may not need them. 2--If the Council wishes to promote some kind of a scholarship, it could be determined specifically for what kind of activity the funds should be directed. 3--Perhaps the Council should subsidize a Hungarian student and thereby get out of the home scholarship completely. 4--The Council could reconstitute my original intent and help a qualified Junior...
...revolt is estimated at $500 million. Russia has offered Kadar a $50 million stopgap loan (in convertible currencies) and promised a new $200 million loan for food grains, oil and raw materials. The Petofi Club, where the revolution sparked, has been replaced by the Tancsics Club, whose meager membership is made up of old Stalinist hangers...