A new character in indoor sport was rapidly reaching fame last week. He was Sam Gordon, who, before 1929, was Portland, Ore.'s most unorthodox builder. He sold homes "nothing down, nothing a month, to people who couldn't afford to buy them." His method was to put up cracker-box houses on cheap lots, turn them over to occupants without interior walls or bathrooms. In the yard he left lumber, carpenters' tools, nails, paint, some garden seed. When the purchaser had finished his house, Gordon gave him the deed and took a $1,200 mortgage. When the...
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