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...therefore, I, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of the City of New York, by virtue of the statutes and established customs in such case made and provided, do proclaim that an emergency exists which threatens the peace and good order of the City of New York, and do hereby prohibit from and after the 26th day of December, 1935, the sale, display and possession of artichokes...
...Wired New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to Grover Whalen, onetime head of Wanamaker's Manhattan store, now chairman of Schenley Distillers Corp.: ''Happy to note 10% increase in Christmas sales." Wired Grover Whalen to Mayor LaGuardia: "New York stores not enjoying sales increase. . . . Figures showed decline of 4.8%." Presumably Mayor LaGuardia's city sales tax was responsible for the decline...
Last week, as judges, 75 picture editors, magazine publishers, advertising art directors and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ambled about Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, squinted critically at some 300 pictures of the Press Photographers' Association exhibit. When they had seen everything, they decided that the best spot newspicture in the lot was that of the sorrowing Samanoff, awarded first prize to Cameraman Cranston...
...each & every mayor was in Washington for was to get money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote of the Conference was struck by Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia of New York City, loudest bloom in the mayoral bouquet...
...slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular heed to motor car horns, radios and cutouts, to motor truck clattering, to workmen, revelers and electioneers making loud talk after 11 p.m. Milkwagon horses, police horses were shod with...