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...fellow aldermen weren't so understanding of the "professor." From the start, Douglas was a gadfly, a windmill-tilter, a nagging conscience and a sponsor of lost causes. He banged away at the corrupt school system, at excessive transit fares, at the enormous city budget. He published an audit of his city salary showing that he netted only $16.72 for the year after paying the expenses of office. The boys resented the implication that only a grafter could make ends meet...
...great that the Mayor, shielded by two plainclothesmen, was forced to retreat through the fist-shaking, shrieking crowd to the street. There he told his secretary: "A few more talks like that and we'd wipe out these Communists." Pittsburghers gloomily shook their heads. A born windmill tilter, William McNair punctuated 30 unprosperous years at the bar with a monotonous series of espousals of lost causes. A Bryan stumpster, he ran for everything unsuccessfully until Pittsburgh, as normally Republican as Mecca is Mohammedan, threw out its corrupt and long-lived G. O. P. machine last autumn (TIME...