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...meetings with Mayor Godfrey and Boss Dawson at the Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that traffic might just bypass Ludowici entirely if things did not change. In the midst of the proceedings, Good Government Leaguer Chapman got in a fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting brought unexpected results. Mayor Godfrey, Dawson & Co. agreed to traffic studies by the Georgia Highway Department, agreed as well to follow the department...
...punch a few political buttons. At a fund-raising meeting of top Republicans at the Detroit Club, he unfolded his plan for restoring party amity. Oust liberal State Chairman Lawrence Lindemer, said Summerfield, and the depleted party treasury will soon be overflowing. "Nothing doing," exploded Ford, banging his fist on the inlaid mahogany table. Larry Lindemer is doing a first-rate job, and if Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party paid its bills. In the angry exchange. Ford recalled Sum-merfield's generalship...
...Both men had heavily bandaged middle fingers, but neither was feeling much pain after downing eight Mass (two-quart steins) of beer during the long afternoon. For 25 seconds they grunted on even terms. Then Lehner, his face contorted like a gargoyle's, inexorably forced Glatz's fist over the line, rose to declare: "I'm blessedly glad that I've won today." With that the big brass band oompahed into the Fingerhackln Hymn...
...three crushing local and national election defeats in the past 16 months, the Socialists gathered last week under huge red flags in Tokyo's Nine Steps Hall, to debate the reasons for their fading popularity and to patch up party squabbles. But after five days of noisy fist shaking, they were more divided than ever...
...called Capin a liar, crying, "I was beaten!" After testifying that he "watched" one illegal exchange of currency through a window, which reporters subsequently discovered to be opaque, Policeman Capin grumpily sat down, spent the rest of the day glaring at Defendant Eslek and opening and closing his fist in a way that inexorably drew the prisoners' attention to his giant signet ring...