Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctor's Orders. In Nashville, asked by the judge why he passed three bad checks in a local store, W. P. Rowland explained that he had been bothered by a back ailment, was restricted to light work...
...competition with the building industry, the Budget Bureau and the General Services Administration last year tried a new idea. Why not let private builders pay for new post offices and other federal buildings, sell them to the Government on a lease-purchase deal? Last week Budget Bureau Director Rowland R. Hughes reported that the lease-purchase program's first year has been highly successful. The General Services Administration has approved 26 lease-purchase building projects valued at a total of $91 million; the Post Office Department has approved 27 projects. Total value...
...Wealthy Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly decided not to sue Rave for a story about his daughter, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, when he learned that its editor (then on the masthead as "Victor Huntington Rowland") "didn't have a dime." Said ex-Olympic Sculler Kelly: "If my son or I ever meet him, we'll take him on ... We'll settle it in our own way without a lawsuit...
...hocked for the price of a hot meal, the tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details of his childhood street scraps, the first wild rounds of his private bout with the world...
FEDERAL COMPETITION with business will be cut under new orders of Budget Director Rowland Hughes. All Government agencies have been ordered to discontinue all possible competitive businesses costing more than $5,000 annually and "to refrain from starting commercial activities which might be competitive with private business...