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...House of Representatives last week, New York's short, swart, voluble Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia arose and began: "It is again my unpleasant duty to bring charges against a Federal judge. . . ." It was Mr. LaGuardia's third such speech in three years. Newsgatherers conferred among themselves about the advisability of bestowing upon him some such title as Watch-Dog of the Judiciary...
...York's Wet Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia asked Mr. Ford to fit together two statements. Ford statement No. 1 (in the September Pictorial Review) : "If booze ever comes back to the U. S., I am through with manufacturing. I would not be bothered with the problem of handling over 200,000 men and trying to pay them wages which the saloons would take away from them." Ford statement No. 2 (in the September Forbes Magazine) : "The tractors have already begun to come from Ireland and they are better than we have made here...
...Debate on Prohibition Enforcement between Representative Fiorello H. LaGuardia (Wet) of New York and Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Dry) of Iowa, under auspices of Cleveland Advertising Club, in Cleveland...
...Debate on Prohibition Enforcement between Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia (Wet) of New York and Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Dry) of Iowa under auspices of Cleveland Advertising Club, in Cleveland...
...York City. Tammany's Mayor James John Walker beat Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931 out of 1,314,820 votes cast). Said Mayor Walker: "One great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People...