Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I first ran for mayor," said Paul Egan of Aurora. Ill. last week, "everybody thought I was a joke. They tried to prove I'm crazy. Once they got working on my wife and they almost had her persuaded to commit me to an institution." Opening the desk drawer in his office in the ramshackle city hall 35 miles west of Chicago, hen-shaped Mayor Egan spat into it, slammed it shut. At 58, blue-eyed, poly-chinned Paul Egan is no joke. The magazine Chicago called him "the worst mayor in the world"-but the electorate...
...mayor was untouched; there were great evil forces at work in the world, and Paul Egan stood ready to analyze them with frequent, mysterious monologues. Sample: "Lenin was a noble man, like Gandhi. It was that sonofabitch Trotsky that messed things up. And that obscenity Stalin. I wonder where he came from. I'll tell you. I think J. P. Morgan put him in. The two big things that cause world tension are religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble...
Despite this show of disapproval, Egan somehow managed to look good to a lot of his constituents. His antics brought Aurora plenty of publicity, and after each squabble, he tried to make it seem that Paul Egan, the man of the people, was defending the city against entrenched interests. When the city council refused to pay for spraying the area against mosquitoes and flies, the Mayor guaranteed the payment out of his own pocket, sprayed the city, later collected $7,000 in contributions from the townspeople...
Last week, after a roaring re-election campaign, Paul Egan clomped to victory with a 4,000-vote margin - 1,000 votes better than his plurality in 1953. Crowed Egan as he spat triumphantly into his desk: "It all proves one goddamned thing. You can't fool the people. The world is watching a new concept of government, where the people make themselves heard above the horse manure of the vested interests. The world will be hearing from Aurora in the next four years, you can bet your tail on that...
...colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons) by Rabbi Gamaliel I, teacher of Saul the Pharisee, who later rode down the road to Damascus to become Paul the Apostle...