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...Manhattan, Mr. & Mrs. Miller Durs had their two-room bungalow set on wheels, engaged Joseph Schiro, trucking contractor, to tow7 them to Babylon. L. I. They came to a halt in East 58th Street when the driver unhitched his truck, left the bungalow stranded because a patrolman found it had no trailer license. While courts, police and lawyers bickered over contracts, licenses, and sanitation laws, the Durs cooked, ate. slept in the bungalow, got a summons for parking overtime, reached Babylon two days late...
...because he is the ablest tariff man in his party and President Roosevelt proposes to start world trade again by international tariff agreements. Rated high for quiet good sense and personal integrity, Senator Hull's appointment produced the loudest popular applause. Abed with a bad cold in his two-room apartment in Washington's fashionable Carlton Hotel, the new Secretary of State said: "I hope I have the capacity to measure up to the responsibilities." After March 4 he will take a larger suite at the Carlton, do all his official entertaining there...
...penthouses is renting at $300 against $450. and another has been leased to a speakeasy. Realtors fear the proposed trans-Bay bridges may increase commuting. Dwellings are 32% vacant in San Francisco. Rentals in the cheaper districts north of Market Street ("The Slot") run about $25 for a two-room apartment, a 10% reduction. Similar reductions prevail in the wooden, stucco-faced buildings on the Marina, where stood the be jeweled buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915). In the residential section rents are off about 20%. Hotel suites (for permanent guests) are down one-third...
...several husbands died more than 35 years ago. All her children and their children are dead. Since 1900 she has lived alone, most of the time in a grass house. About nine years ago she told the Indian Agent at Anadarko to build her a two-room frame cottage and a snug backhouse. That was done. She rents out all but one acre of her Government land allotment to white farmers. They pay her a small amount of cash which suffices her for her weekly drive to town for store groceries. She never goes farther than Anadarko, eight miles away...
...building of the tower was urged by Poet Jeffers' wife, who thought the exercise would be good for her husband. The building has proved useful to the whole family, who have there their "silent rooms." To its two-room base, Garth Sherwood and Donnan Call, the Jeffers' twin sons, resort in rainy weather. On the floor above, Mrs. Jeffers, who is devoted to music. Irish folk-songs in particular, has installed a small organ. Poet Jeffers, to whom all music is "just noise." occupies, with a table and a chair, the tiny room above. Here in the mornings, when...