Word: puffers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went Noble Puffer to seek the aid of the sheriff. Had he not been elected last November to succeed Otto Aken? Was this not the day his term began? He had and it was, but the sheriff could not help him. A court injunction forbade that official to dislodge Otto Aken...
...fifths of Cook County, Ill. consists of the city of Chicago, which has a school superintendent of its own, life in the County Superintendent's office has its dull moments. For six years those moments have been enlivened by paunchy, grey-haired Otto Aken and dapper young Noble Puffer. Up to 1933 both were assistant superintendents. When the Superintendent died a Democratic school board appointed Mr. Aken to fill out the unexpired term. But before the next election wily Noble Puffer elbowed his superior out of Democratic graces, won the nomination. Superintendent Aken accused him of falsifying the records...
There was, however, no restraint on Noble Puffer. Rounding up his wife, his lawyers and a party of burly friends, he returned to the office. Picking up what records they could lug, the Aken forces retreated to an inner office, barricaded the door...
...outer office, Noble Puffer entrenched himself. He cut off Mr. Aken's telephone. When Mr. Aken's secretary left her desk, he popped his own secretary into her seat. Finally he took out what records had not been carried into the inner office, shortly announced that in eight months Mr. Aken had used up all but $69.50 of the year's appropriation for extra office help...
...night Otto Aken and Noble Puffer napped on couches. In the morning Mr, Aken unlocked a side door, leading from his office to a corridor, to admit his wife with a razor, waiters with food. Newshawks lounged in the outer office, taking periodic statements from Mr. Puffer. Pending a court decision, it-was beginning to look like a two-week siege when, shortly after 5 p. m., nine men strode into the office. One of them unwrapped a sledge hammer, battered down the door...