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While he was state president of the A.F.L., Meany got his teeth into politics. In the 1937 mayoralty election he broke Tammany Hall's political influence on the local A.F.L. unions, swung them over to his good friend Fiorello La Guardia. But Meany was not swept along with the American Labor Party tide that included many New York labor leaders in a sticky association with the Communists. In 1938, Meany denounced the A.L.P. leaders as "political self-seekers, left-wingers, political renegades and non-laboring laborites...
Died. Vito Marcantonio. 51. six-term Congressman from New York's East Har em; of a heart attack; on a rainy street in Manhattan. Tough, fiery little Vito fought his way up from East Side poverty, hung on to the fluttering coattails of Fiorello La Guardia, succeeded him in Congress in 1934 on a Republican-City Fusion ticket. In his district, Vito was an indefatigable favordoer; in Washington, a slavish follower of the Communist Party line. Finally beaten by a 1950 Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition, he still remained powerful and popular in his district, drew 20,000 mourners...
...vigorous Fiorello LaGuardia tradition, Max Brauer was a good mayor. Pointing to reborn Hamburg, he trumpeted: "My administration has done this. I intend to stay." But this week 66-year-old Max Brauer was out of the Rathaus. In local municipal elections to choose the 120-man Hamburg State Assembly, which in turn selects the mayor, a four-party conservative bloc inched out Brauer's Social Democrats. The coalition won 50% of the vote, and 62 Assembly seats to the Socialists...
...problems are not peculiar to New York. They are rooted in the very bigness of cities, and the inevitable neglect that comes of growing too fast. Without considering this, many people, vocal in the present campaign, are obsessed with a LaGuardia complex. Pointing to the administration of the great Fiorello, they say that one man, if he is dynamic enough and independent enough of political influence, can solve these problems. They forget, however, that LaGuardia only dented the city's problems and that most of his projects needed financial support from Washington, support the present national administration...
...Composer Thomson has been doing musical portraits since 1928, usually with the subjects posing as for a painter, and now has well over a hundred (including one about Pablo Picasso called Bugles and Birds and a brassy waltz about Fiorello La Guardia...