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...charge of extravagance, the Fusion administration might seem guilty on the surface, since the budget for the city has risen. But the causes for this rise were mandatory charges imposed by the new charter, the introduction of the three platoon system in the fire department and the eight hour day for nurses in city hospitals, and the restoration of depression pay cuts. Furthermore, the Tammany Board of Estimate has consistently refused to permit the weeding from office of their political parasites, restoring in the face of La Guardia's explosive wrath sixty-four hirelings of no value to the community...
...have conventions. Last week they assembled in a traditional convention spot, Atlantic City, for their annual two-day outing. Only 22 went in person, some of the rest dispatching representatives. New Jersey's Hoffman played host, greeting the guests with a band, a claque of uniformed veterans, a platoon of State troopers, a motorcade of ten cars with gubernatorial license plates ("N. J. 1") and a convivial "get-together" dinner for early arrivals in the Hotel Traymore...
Next morning their platoon is sent over the top. Advancing through murk and mire, suffering heavy losses, they valiantly capture an Allied machine-gun nest only to be halted by news of the Armistice. Mutters one: "After four years-and it just fizzled...
...advertising rates, surprising the publisher if not himself when readers unanimously acclaimed it as the best feature of the day. Another Toronto millionaire prospector is Tony Oklend, an Austrian emigrant who staked Long Lac in 1926. From his pile he bought a big house in the suburbs, hired a platoon of servants headed by a butler. When the servants arrived he called them together to announce: "I don't care what you do around here but I do the cooking...
...cheap dining-car meals, Sun Valley is Averell Harriman's pet project. He took his wife, daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Oelrichs ("Eddy") Duchin and Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of Columbia Broadcasting's president, on an inspection tour with Count Schaffgotsch last winter. The Count will provide a platoon of Austrian ski teachers for the resort...