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...terms of public service rather than circulation or profit, points out that the paper has made a place for itself in the nation's largest and most competitive community. This fact few could deny after the World-Telegram, unsupported by any other important metropolitan paper, helped Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia into City Hall in 1934. turning out Tammany for the first time since the old World ousted...
Last week the Board, whose 22 members supervise the affairs of the city's three free colleges,* met to decide whether or not they should fire President Robinson. The Board apparently divided along strictly political lines. Six of the seven members appointed by liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...
Another front-page story, jesting at Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plans for a New York City municipal power plant, reported that Consolidated Edison was about to turn the tables by founding a "yardstick" city to be "colonized and owned by the company's stockholders, who hope to offset the losses from New York City's competition in the utility field by the saving in taxes resulting from operating their own city...
Before voting, the Guildmen heard New York's Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia declaim: "I think the Pullman porters had some difficulties similar to yours. Like you, they are scattered all over the country, and some are on the road all the time, so that it is extremely difficult for them to assemble. Further more, they met a most stubborn resistance on the part of employers. Airmail and passenger-line pilots, like you, originally resented the suggestion that they join in a labor group. They are now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...artists' home States, some 700 paintings and 60 sculptures from 46 States, the District of Columbia and four territories hung on specially prepared walls of sea grass and plaster. For the preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages by flooring with one blow a spindly Hearstling named Lou Wedemar who heckled him about his handling of the Hauptmann case. After this...