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Stationery for the Mayor. Wearing a loud bow tie, a crew cut and a big smile, 47-year-old Orville Hubbard was off on a trip (at his own expense)-a little survey of bathing beaches in Chicago, Atlantic City and elsewhere, a mayors' convention in Canada and a few side trips that might, he explained, keep him away from Dearborn for weeks & weeks. When he got to Windsor, Ont., just across the Detroit River from Dearborn, he said, he would set up a government in exile and run Dearborn by telephone. As an added precaution, Orville also placed...
...Philadelphia, the Rev. Everett C. Parker, director of the Protestant Radio Commission, demanded more religious broadcasts: "We will not bow before the demands that soap and cigarettes be first in people's thinking . . . Religion is not a hobby with the American people, nor is it a hunger felt only...
...first glance it appeared that the President was making a low bow to RFC's critics. There was no doubt that RFC's management had been sadly inept under Chairman Hise. And his vague explanations about some of RFC's multi-million-dollar loans during his regime had satisfied practically nobody...
...awed ladies tiptoed in. "These are good Nebraska girls," explained Wherry as the ladies giggled. "I wanted them to see this great committee." One by one Chairman Kenneth McKellar, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Admiral Forrest Sherman and Generals Omar Bradley, Hoyt Vandenberg and Lightnin' Joe Collins rose to bow as Wherry introduced them. Then, Wherry led the girls out again, and the committee settled down to talk about the fate of the Western world...
...Crockett's colleagues started filing back into the auditorium, so Lem crushed his Fatima on the floor and turned to leave. "Don't worry, son," said he. "We'll take care of those that pass away [a quick bow of the head]. But it's going to be tough...