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...directly at his opponent, Mayor Bernard Samuel. Dilworth charged that 67-year-old Barney Samuel, a city payroller since 1903, tolerated bookmaking even at City Hall. He charged that City Hall workers and some merchants are annually dunned to buy the mayor a birthday present-e.g., a station wagon and a motorboat. Under Samuel, said Dilworth, a police inspector could easily pick up $30,000 a year in graft-and some inspectors were doing it. As for solving the city's acute sewage, parking, paving, housing and airport problems, the mayor has not even come close...
Hoping to catch the custom of the thrifty, Mooney last week announced two new models in his "jeep" line. One of them, a station-wagon sedan, is a slicked-up version of the present jeep station wagon. It will sell for $1,825, f.o.b. Toledo, and will come out around Jan. i. The other is an eye-catching jeep "convertible" (see cut), which Willys plans to put on the market next spring at the price of the cheapest Ford or Chevrolet (this would be about $1,200, f.o.b. Toledo). The convertible is actually a touring car. It has no windows...
Acting on his advice, the girls put in a call to police headquarters, and shortly thereafter five officers arrived in a two-way radio car and a patrol wagon...
...condition, he won't be much help, in telling us himself." remarked one, as the wagon rolled...
Last week Curtis got off the wagon and for the first time decided to accept liquor ads, but only in 20-month-old Holiday. It has a different kind of readership from its more sedate Curtis sisters-and a different-looking balance sheet. Said President Fuller: "To add this new classification . . . will increase Holiday's serviceability both to its advertisers and readers." It might also help Curtis put money-losing Holiday in the black...