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...summaries: BROOKS ELIOT Lyons, r.f. l.f., Cann Whalen, l.f. r.f., Hodson Corey, c. c., Swann Rosenthal, r.g. l.g., Shapiro Borkum, l.g. r.g., Clos...
...Well," said Grover Whalen, local NRAdministrator, just before 2 o'clock, "forward march...
...Avenue chattered a smoky-tailed vanguard of motorcycle police. Out stepped spectacled Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the 2nd Corps Area and Marshal of the parade. Along came Administrator Whalen, who once was Police Commissioner. Behind them, on the parade's lone official float, rode two symbolic beauties, "Miss Liberty" and "Miss NRA," the Misses Elise & Doris Ford of Brooklyn, Howard Chandler Christie's models. When the head of the parade reached the Public Library at 42nd Street, Grover Whalen and General Nolan joined General Hugh Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York and prognathous, bag-jowled...
...review point. General Johnson, his hand raised in a continuous Fascist salute, had declared the parade to be "the most marvelous demonstration I have ever seen." Shortly thereafter, when his secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson grew ill, he took her home. But Governor Lehman still wore his smile. Grover Whalen kept banging the railing in front of him and singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here." The top hat of fat Mayor O'Brien still flashed its professional greeting, even after he was roundly booed by the Wall Street contingent, angered by the Mayor...
...York City's great suffering masses and tycoons marched up Fifth Avenue in a great NRA parade. Three thousand of them were Stock Exchange and brokerage employes. In the reviewing stand before the Public Library were General Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York, Grover Aloysius Whalen and prognathous Mayor O'Brien, waving and smiling at the marchers. Just after the head of the brokerage army passed the stand somebody shouted "Booo." A hundred voices took it up: "O'Brien, boo! O'Brien booo!" The Mayor, looking somewhat surprised, forced a smile and waved gaily...