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...outgrown a two-bedroom cottage in a predominantly Negro community a mile away. But his coming to Levittown flowered fears, jeers and widespread rumors that he was the spearhead of a Negro invasion. For days surly crowds grumbled outside his house, finally threw stones through its picture window. Bristol Township police were reinforced by tough state troopers at the direction of Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George M. Leader ("I am ashamed," said Leader, "that this occurred in Pennsylvania...
Early Life: Born in Normanby Township, Ont., Sept. 18. 1895. His father (a schoolteacher, later a farmer and civil servant) and mother were third-generation Canadians. When he was eight, the family moved to wheat-growing, western Saskatchewan, where John Diefenbaker helped break the land, fought prairie fires. Took political-science and law degrees at the University of Saskatchewan...
Fighting Retreat. In Forward Township, Pa., when Prohibition-minded citizens compelled the three-tavern area to take a local-option vote on beer and spirits, citizens voted narrowly against the continued sale of beer but for the sale of hard liquor...
...Populi. In Detroit, Law Student Frank Castelluccio noticed on his absentee ballot that no one was running for the New Buffalo, Mich, township's Highway Commissioner, idly wrote himself in, was elected by one vote...
...Princeton he built a stately mansion, Albemarle, 192 ft. long and set off by eight superb columns ("We would put up a column . . . take it down and remove half an inch of diameter, and then keep on doing this until the column was right"). Lambert also built the township of Lambrook, Ark., where he invested half a million dollars. Soon Jerry Lambert found himself with personal debts "approaching" $700,000, and went to work for the family business. Within two months Gerard Lambert was the company's general manager, "although I still had no office." Within seven years...