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...restaurant window: "Here's Elmer." Double-checked Elmer facts are: A division of the "40-&-8" Legion parade in Chicago was to be led by Elmer Taylor, organization officer of the Illinois department. On his way to the starting point Elmer Taylor got caught in a traffic jam. When the parade was ready to start another official charged up & down the street shouting "Where's Elmer?" Marchers and onlookers took up the call, spread it through the line of march that night, through the city next day, through the U. S. that week...
...page boy opened the doors of the President's office to let in the biggest jam that had attended any Roosevelt press conference. Some of the last men in had to be pushed forward by guards. The President leaned back in his desk chair, puffing at a cigaret in a yellow bone holder. "All in?" he cheerfully inquired. "Then shut the doors, and nobody leaves until the conference is over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to those close to the desk...
...imply that the potato soup & whipped cream with which Chancellor Dollfuss bulwarked himself after a night of fasting & prayer was his usual breakfast. It is his favorite dish. On milder mornings he takes a standard Wiener Frühstück-coffee with whipped cream, crescent rolls (Kipfel), jam, one boiled egg.-ED. Ethical Bacardi Sirs...
People, thousands and thousands of people, more people than there are in Indianapolis and St. Louis and Birmingham, Ala. combined, jam-packed the stone-cliffed canyon of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for half a day last week. Three out of every ten New Yorkers were there, 2,000,000 strong. They fainted, they cheered, their feet hurt, their clothes got mussed. At 58th Street their sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many...
...Mayor of the No. 2 U.S. city finally come crashing out into the open. For a week the front pages of the Herex and the afternoon American had been smeared with thundering innuendos to the effect that a top-notch Chicago politician had been in an income tax jam with the Federal Government. The constant use of Mayor Kelly's picture left readers in small doubt as to who was meant. All the Mayor would say when questioned was: "Any answer I might make would put me on the spot. I have paid my income tax every year...