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Phillip E. Areeda, Dearborn, Michigan and Leverett; Peter A. Bater, New York and Eliot; Martin Boykan, New York and Leverett; Nathaniel P. Carleton, Arlington, Virginia and Eliot; James R. Dumwright, Ripley, Tennessee and Eliot; Leonard J. Friedman, Mount Vernon, N.Y. and Kirkland...
Orville L. Hubbard had been running for one public office after another for almost ten years, but he could not get elected. Then, one fine day in 1941, the citizens of Dearborn, Mich. (pop. 94,000) were overcome by a desire for reform and they elected loudmouthed, 225-lb. "Little Orvie" Hubbard their mayor...
...bill," said Orville. "It's customary to pay these to hold . . . jobs."), and then he had the chief make his whole department hose down the streets one morning at 3 a.m.; this made the chief so unpopular with the firemen that he had to quit. When the Dearborn Press turned against the mayor, Publisher William Klamser's personal property assessment was jacked...
...Blackjack for the Kids. But a few months go, Dearborn began losing patience with Mayor Hubbard's lightheaded antics and heavy-handed rule. Voters reacted angrily when he tried to block a new $4,500,000 hospital which would be paid for with money donated by the Ford Motor Co., winced as he poured city money into a project known as Camp Dearborn, an elaborate public summer camp too far from the city to do most residents any good. When taxpayers complained, Little Orvie simply told them to shut up and raised property assessments...
...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 an order for a new batch of stationery, with a letterhead that read: "Temporary office...