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...brown dog wandered into court, sniffed Sir Oscar's feet and went out. A plane roared low overhead and the Court Crier, an elderly Negro, seated on the step below the Bench to keep mosquitoes off His Honor's ankles, woke with a start, began...
...followed last-minute testimony from George A. Wilson, assistant to Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes. Wilson, sent to the Hill to torpedo the canal and to plug for pipelines, was unfortunately required to be moderately optimistic about the East Coast fuel situation for next fall. Subsequently, as the No. 1 crier of "Wolf! Wolf!" his boss has been putting out alarmed statements that next winter's oil situation may be tough (though it should be better) because nobody knows what military needs will be. But Honest Harold, who, as Interior Secretary, loves pipelines more than canals, won his point...
...defeat. Unless every U.S. citizen conserves his tires, unless the Army & Navy cut their needs to the rim, the nation's rubber reserves may be nonexistent by Christmas. Said Rubber Czar William Jeffers: "The country is not yet out of the critical stage." But Rubberman Jeffers, no crier of "Wolf! Wolf!," was optimistic, gaily predicted that U.S. factories would be producing 850,000 tons of synthetic a year within a twelvemonth-more than enough for all military needs...
...radio's Town Crier he got a big audience for his twelve-cylinder whimsies and became a cultural campaigner of such influence as had not been known since the palmy days of William Lyon Phelps. His fee rose to $3,500 a broadcast. His reign covered about eight years (1929-37). He was a national phenomenon...
...three weeks all-important theories about the flour were discussed and examined from every angle. Then the crier, walking slowly on bare feet, shouted in a loud, thin voice: "Tomorrow. At the Church of Saint Nicholas." Those who were about to die tried to live another...