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Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. The 103rd Mayor of New York City (second tough est political job in the U. S.) is the greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran...
...103rd annual meeting last week, business was brief and routine. Income for 1938 was $30,000-the annual rental received from New York Central. Taxes, expenses and officers' salaries ate up $6,000. The directors voted to pay out the remainder. Thus, to each of 125 stockholders who own the road's 6,000 shares (par: $50) went an 8% dividend, about the amount they always have received and will receive as long as the Central pays its rent...
Like all forward-looking dynasties, the House of Pendergast early chose an heir. He was Michael's son, "Young Jim." The War had interrupted his law schooling, but overseas service in the 103rd Field Artillery was not bad training for a rising Pendergast. For Pendergast "Goats," there was still plenty of fistfighting to be done with Shannon "Rabbits" when Young Jim started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young...
Founder of professional football in the U. S. and organizer of both its major leagues is a 60-year-old general practitioner with offices at Broadway & 103rd Street, Manhattan, named Dr. Harry Addison March. Dr. March grew up in Canton, Ohio, played football at Mt. Union College in 1893, became a reporter for the Canton Repository. When William McKinley, a friend of his Army officer father, campaigned for the Presidency, Reporter March joined him, followed him to Washington, landed a job there as $7-a-week assistant to Dramatic Critic Channing Pollock. When McKinley advised him that newspaper reporters were...
Savants of Japan trace Imperial Poem Reading through 1,000 years of vicissitudes fascinating to explore. The present Emperor is the 124th in direct line and the major crises of Imperial Poem Reading may be said to have been weathered in the reigns of the 62nd, the 83rd, the 103rd and the 122nd. It was Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the present Emperor, who dealt masterfully with the insurgence of Japanese commoners when they vigorously although reverently beseeched that Imperial Poem Reading should depart from the immemorial tradition that no poems were ever read to the Son of Heaven except those...