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...Acting Mayor Riley, who jumped his police chief last week for offering the same alibis for the city's disorder that had been used "ever since you were a harness bull." Once when a cantankerous office-seeker called him a buckpasser, Mr. Riley, an Oregon State Agricultural Collegeman, whose post-graduate work included truck driving, replied that "no son of a bitch can call me a buck-passer," and forthwith thrashed the fellow purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Northwest Front | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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