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...bombs banged out. Against the sunset sky banners marked "Walker for Governor" fluttered before the Mayor, who acknowledged the demonstration by shaking his own hands over his head like a pugilist entering the ring. When he returned to Manhattan two days later, Tammany Hall was ready for him. Two bus loads of ward heelers were dispatched to Grand Central as the core of a crowd which swelled to thousands. A band marched up playing "Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here." All in white, Peter P. Cappel, head of New York Jewelers Exchange Inc. and a generous Democrat, brought...
...darkness a bugle sang out "Cease Firing!" feet tramped in martial unison up the road, over the slag heap. Governor Leslie, declaring martial law, had called out guardsmen to lift the siege of the Dixie Bee. From Terre Haute, twelve miles north, 820 infantrymen had arrived by bus. Out of the fan house, the office, the boiler room, streamed an exhausted, grimy band of workers, overjoyed at their rescue...
...sponsor a bus franchise to the financially irresponsible Equitable Coach Co., backed by a close friend, but did not know it was unfit to receive the award until later...
TIME cannot discover that the Feagan children were inspired to go to President Hoover by anything but their desire to help their father. A bus line gave them free rides, paid hotel bills. Publicity followed naturally, encouraged by the White House because, though he is no baby-kissing politician, a conspicuous feature of President Hoover's legend is his fondness for "kiddies...
...Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared to place a trump in his hand. Having begun to receive Block money several months before his trip to Europe in 1927, why, he asked, need he have looked elsewhere (i. e. to the Equitable bus people) for traveling expenses? Nevertheless, Inquisitor Seabury wanted an explanation for the Block aid. It was forthcoming when the quixotic publisher, who has often been seen at ringside and banquet table with the Mayor and whose Port Chester summer home is named "Friendship," took the stand...