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Peppery little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of New York personally put his city's bid in for 1937. Even more foresighted, the town of Closter, N. J. (pop. 2,502) announced its candidacy for the 1976 meeting place, by which time its supporters claimed it would have absorbed New York, 20 mi. away. Cleveland's bed & blimp...
...Hitler millions of Germans have been waiting for what Der Führer calls "the occult forces of World Jewry" to be exposed in "their citadel, New York." Last week came what Nazis took to be the long-awaited break. For what seemed to them exceedingly occult reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies, ping- pong galleries, pool and billiard parlors, shooting galleries...
...German trade treaty of 1925. Specifically, in the case of an obscure German who has been trying for months to wangle a renewal of his masseur's license out of Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss. pugnacious Fiorello LaGuardia snarled: "Wherever anyone is depending on this Treaty to get a license he won't get it! ... The issue is: should we extend privileges to German citizens here when similar privileges are denied to American citizens in Germany? . . . This is a great big thing. This is a broad interpretation of treaty rights . . . worth fighting...
...Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily. Frequent guests at these Renaissance meals are New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who calls Attilio "Uncle Peach" and John D. Rockefeller Jr. whom "Uncle Peach" calls Mr. Rockefeller...
...mopped Bandmaster Goldman. On the podium stood a dark, chunky little man in a white suit. He waved his arms in a vigorous if unorthodox beat. He smartly stopped the musicians in time for each whistle and la-la-la-la. Then New York's music-loving Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, son of an Army bandmaster, brought the march to its crashing close, took...