MICHIGAN: Up Rose Little Orvie Then

In his five terms as mayor of Dearborn (pop. 94,530), on the western edge of Detroit, irrepressible Orville L. ("Little Orvie") Hubbard has managed to obey almost every impulse that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor,...

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