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...handsome, by coach to nibble a bit at Will's. Here I did meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought the occasion to borrow six pounds which I was glad at my heart...
State was a Mrs. Agatha Mackison, who said that the previous Saturday night she, Saunders, an exercise boy named Schaeffer and one Evelyn Sliwinski, fun-loving, 24-year-old wife of a tailor, had made a round of roadhouses. Afterwards, according to Mrs. Mackison, Mrs. Sliwinski had been ordered out of Saunders' car, knocked down and deliberately run over twice...
...Connor, 65, longtime (1924-33) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, onetime president of the International Longshoremen's Association, onetime tugboat fireman; in Buffalo. He retired in the midst of bitter Senate charges of waste and favoritism, which included the accusation that a shipper paid a $510 tailor bill...
...Public Service Electric & Gas Co. undertook to run its Roseland-to-Metuchen high-tension line through Scotch Plains, N. J. eight years ago, it found its way blocked by a colony of prosperous, high-spirited Poles. To John Crempa, 46, thin, hot-tempered U. S. Army veteran and journeyman tailor, the company offered $800 for the necessary strip of land through his property. Crempa demanded $100,000, and even after the company had the Crempa land condemned and posted the awarded $800 with the court, Crempa refused to take it, raised his price to $150,000. He began...
...surveying party. The ruse worked but the neighbors, armed with brooms, rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie and his pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs...