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...there was little debate. Of the 30 articles passed on by the meeting, nineteen were voted unanimously, including a half million appropriation for general running expenses. On some of the others, the discussion was log and tortuous. Article 18, "To see if the Town will vote to purchase and erect a Town Flag pole...and provide for the payment thereof," drew considerable comment from patriots, economizers and wags. In the end, the meeting voted the article down. The voters had less to say about a subsequent proposal to grant the town police force a forty-hour week. Defeat came quickly...
...China as a Red Cross director in 1940, and was captured by the Japanese during World War II. After inheriting Mary's long-hoarded money, he said he hoped with it "in some small way" to help improve U.S. foreign relations. He also resolved to erect a monument on the grave of the recluse's mother. Unforgiving Mary Bullock Powers had left it unmarked for 37 years...
...Truman's Secretary of Commerce drove down from Palm Beach, Fla. last week to Miami. Carefully combed, immaculate in a brown tropical suit and two-tone shoes, and so characteristically erect that he seemed to be leaning slightly backwards, white-haired Charles Sawyer walked into the Flamingo Hotel to dine with 42 officials of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their wives...
...most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair and asked Mr. Hoover to sit on the books. He had to sit erect and alert, to keep from falling off the books...
...Erect, soldierly Georges Revers had had a brilliant military career. As chief of staff and the army's top officer, he had won the respect and trust of professional soldiers of Britain and the U.S. But he had a great weakness: he liked to dabble in political intrigue, often used professional informers to get inside stories on matters of interest...