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...Compromise was impossible because none of the three leading candidates would give an inch for party unity. Sheriff Richard Weglein, for 25 years boss of "Brewerytown," thought he ought to be Mayor because he is "the only real Republican of the lot." The Penrose faction of the Republican machine threw its support to City Treasurer WillB Hadley for Mayor. Also definitely in the Republican race was a newcomer named Samuel Davis Wilson...
...than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California...
Into Panic's teeth Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming threw this information: "Infantile paralysis cases reported to the U. S. Public Health Service to date: North Carolina, 558; Virginia, 473; District of Columbia, 37; Massachusetts, 389; New York, 941. The District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina have apparently passed the seasonal peak...
...French scouting planes flew overhead; raiding automobiles harried the tribe on the march. In a desperate move, Faris and Carl Raswan, representing Amir Fuaz, drove into the enemy grounds of the Fid'an to ask permission for the Ruala to graze there. Received suspiciously, threatened with death, they threw themselves on the hospitality of the Fid'an, who were thus compelled to let them go uninjured. To their astonishment, the Fid'an suddenly capitulated, moved their enormous tribe to make room for the Ruala, inviting Carl Raswan to visit them...
Realistically aware that every war makes its own rules as it progresses, Maryland's Tydings, an A. E. F. Lieutenant Colonel, threw some cold water on his feverish colleagues: "The only way by which we can stay out of war, if this philosophy is sound, is to have no shipping whatsoever. . . . What we do, well intentioned though it is, is apt to degenerate into a set of New Year's resolutions, which will be broken about as soon as war is declared...