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...moved their furniture into the apartment, they found a handful of Cicero and Cook County police-and a large and hostile crowd. Frightened, the Clarks left -but the crowd didn't. Until midnight, the crowd milled in the street, booing, and jeering when Cook County Sheriff John Babb ordered them to disperse, occasionally throwing stones...
...Tribune" said Colonel McCormick, "we have only modest claims to make." In Cook County's frantic sheriff race said Bertie, "we made the fight that beat 'Tubbo' [Police Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert] and elected [John E.] Babb. Also, we carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking...
Democrats had thought that, more or less unnoticed in the general hustle, they could elect "Tubbo" Gilbert sheriff of Cook County. That was before Tubbo's Republican rival, one John E. Babb, got busy and Chicago newspapers took a scandalized second look at the amazing career of 200-lb. Policeman Tubbo...
Texas. As one who has paid out $1,500 for gifts she is not herself eligible to receive - Mother's Day, bridal, baby, wedding and anniversary presents - Miss Dorothy Babb, an instructor at North Texas State College, felt that there should be a National Old Maids' Day. Many spinsters, she pointed out, don't even get birthday gifts, so eager are they to avoid the subject...
...Babb has no delusions about the toughness of his new job. He knows that Lever Bros., caught napping in the booming field of detergents, had also been demoralized by Luckman's ruthless head-chopping, and had slipped competitively far behind Procter & Gamble (TIME, May 8). Said Babb bravely: "Some people hate being in a tight spot. They like things to go well and to be confronted with no difficulties. I like things hard." Nobody doubted that he would find them that way at Lever Bros...