Word: snell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their titles suggest, the novels are a queer quartet: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939). During his lifetime...
Killed in a 1947 plane crash were Oregon's Republican Governor Earl Snell, his secretary of state and the president of the state senate. The tragedy left a void at the very top of Oregon Republicanism-a void soon filled by State Senator Douglas McKay, who ran for governor in an off-year election and won. Patterson also moved up, although at a slower pace than McKay. In 1951 Patterson was elected senate president, and, since that position stands second in Oregon's line of succession, became governor when McKay resigned to go to Washington as Eisenhower...
...Snell says things have been doing "Quite well." He expects Johnson to gross $250,000 this year, and plans to have the line completely paid for within four years. The line operates over a 100 mile route between Milford, Boston, Woonsocket, R.I., and Framingham, Mass...
...Snell and Sage were schoolmates at Beerfield when they became interested in Englander. After a strike threatened to close the line down, the two bought it as a preliminary to their latest acquisition, and have been making money with it ever since...
Despite his better than 40 hours a week out in Milford, Snell says he still gets his college work done. "After all, this bus business is only a hobby," he explains...