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...even Maury Maverick succumbed to the pall that hung over Chicago. Said he, surveying the lacklustre scenes at the Stevens hotel ("World's Greatest"), where the National Committee was quartered: "This convention is like a mystery story in which everybody knows the answer to the mystery...
...delegate brought a dash of vigor and verve along with him. At otherwise abortive hearings on the Party platform (to all intents it was written at the White House), San Antonio's gobliny Mayor Maury Maverick prescribed for the Democratic Party "that aggressive spirit which has made it great." He evoked the Mavericks who pioneered in Texas: "They came praying to God and shootin' Indians. That's the way this country was built and it's the way it's got to be kept alive." One night-Maury Maverick continued-his wife found him praying...
...Hitler victories were not likely to make their task easier, before or after the election. But, as every political commentator noted, something like a revolution had swept Republican ranks. When America was sung at the opening session, the nomination was still wide open. The 1,000 delegates were unbossed, maverick-wild. Amateur enthusiasts had swept into town, breaking down long-laid plans, outmoding deals, making all estimates wild guesses...
Liberals as well as conservatives gave the Witnesses short shrift. Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex., forbade a Witnesses' convention there, swore their refusal to salute the U. S. flag was an "overt act." But Republican Maine had the worst riots. At Kennebunk last week. Witness headquarters were sacked, burned by an angry mob. There and in nearby towns private houses were raided, Witnesses dragged out and beaten...
...position of a landlord owning an apartment from which the tenant has not yet cleared out, FM will not really start to go to town until Jan. 1. By that time FCC expects to have the space cleared. Included in the megacyclic housecleaning will be 13 maverick Government short-wave services...