Word: township
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Died. Allan P. Kirby, 80, financier who built an inheritance of $50 million into one of the world's largest personal fortunes; in Harding Township, N.J. With the legacy left from his father's investment in Woolworth stores, Kirby and his flamboyant partner, Robert Young, bought control of the railroad-rich Alleghany Corp. in 1937. The investment prospered until the '50s, when Young's death was followed by a well-publicized proxy battle that cost Kirby his post as the company's top officer. Stubbornly, Kirby battled back, and by 1963 was again in control...
...long frustrating night for J. Mervyn Harris. He had known all along that although Nether Providence needed reapportionment badly, when the ward leaders and township commissioners finally sat down to the grim business of taking from some and giving to others, it would be brutal. He had dreaded the meeting for days, and had prepared four separate plans after throwing out dozens. He had expected it to be rough and it was worse...
...spend more time with his two sons. But at 39, Harris knows that he will not quit, despite the reapportionment or whatever comes next. Making a machine work is what he enjoys most. "It gives me an opportunity to serve," he says. "Plus, I enjoy influencing things around the township. People come to me to ask for things. I admit it, it's an ego boost...
Harris moved to Nether Providence when he was seven, to a house not two blocks from where he lives today. He and his parents had left Johnstown, Pa., four years after the last flood. ("We weren't involved - we lived up on a hill.") His parents and the township were adamantly Republican, and before Harris graduated from Nether Providence High School in 1952, he had been transformed from an introvert into a veteran doorbell-ringer and door-slammer for the local...
...same philosophy in politics. If you want to knock someone off, you do it quickly, before he has time to do favors to people, before obligations to him build up. By now, I've done something of significance for every ward leader in the township. It would be pretty hard to knock...