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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maury Maverick's "purpose is to tell an ordinary story of an ordinary man with ordinary ideas." but he has a right to consider himself more American than most. His ancestors were early first citizens of Manhattan (whose etymology he gives as Man-a-hat-ta-nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious...
Died. Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, 51, Oklahoma's romping onetime (1935-36) "Cowboy Congressman"; of heart disease; in Coalgate, Okla. Celebrated for his ten-gallon hat, shoestring tie and wing collar, "Ol' Gass" declared that every judge should have at least five years experience at poker before taking office, boosted the Association for the Prevention of Taking Off Hats in Elevators...
...along a road high above the sea looking towards the Bay of Naples just at sunrise . . . . A white goat kick a streamlined diesel engine which had just run over its baby . . . . In Rome one Sunday afternoon: A woman, ermine fur, Pekinese in arms, walking with a gentleman with top hat, cane; woman hesitates, looks round, gives dog to man and screws up big awning of grocery store...
...sale can be adjourned by public oral announcement to rooms in the division superintendent's office." At that point Mr. Abbott muttered: "Adjournment is now taken.'' Picking up his brief case, he stalked into the offices, looked around for an empty desk, hung up his hat and coat, got out more documents. No one paid any attention. He had 14 parcels of property to offer. At the end of each description he said: "How much am I offered for properties described and constituting parcel so-&-so?" The clerks did not even look up. After a pause...
Another flurry was caused by word from impressionable young reporters in Washington that General Pershing, military representative, would attend the Coronation in a gaudy $600 uniform of his own designing, consisting of an ostrich-plumed "fore & aft" hat, a frock coat embroidered with oak leaves, epaulets, brass buttons and a buff silk sash. Infuriated, General Pershing stomped up the gangway of the President Harding without ever explaining clearly to reporters that his Coronation costume was no flight of fancy but the regulation full-dress uniform of a General in the U. S. Army. Grinned Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval representative...