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...tale of the department's Special Squad No. 1, a group which was ordered to infiltrate the party back during World War II, came to light when a secret report to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was made public during Miller's trial. The report, dated April 4, 1944, noted that 28 detectives and policewomen had become dues-paying members of the party and had supplied daily reports on its inner workings. "So deeply did some of our investigators bore into the party," it stated, "that one of them acted as a courier between the American Communist Party...
Most of Jersey's larger cities are traditionally Democratic, and the state has been Republican for ten years, but politicos of both parties have been remarkably astigmatic toward venality great & small. When New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia threw "punks and gamblers" out of town, they migrated, almost as one. to Bergen County, N.J., and for almost ten years no politico seemed to know that they were there...
During five years at Albany, Brownell became known as a liberal legislator, pushed through measures that Special Prosecutor Tom Dewey wanted for his crime-busting and those that Fiorello La Guardia wanted to reform New York City's government. His successes came only after he used a prenatal political advantage. Says he: "At first, I couldn't get anything through. And then I found out what the trouble was. Among those upstate Republicans, a Republican from the city was considered worse than a Democrat. After I told them my father came from Madison County and my mother from...
Evasive though it was on many subjects, Luchese's testimony nonetheless produced some surprising revelations. By his own statement, his acquaintances, social or otherwise, included Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ("I used to talk with him like I was his son"), ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio (who appointed Luchese's son to West Point), Myles J. Lane, the U.S. district attorney, Federal Judge Thomas Meaney, and Federal Judge Thomas Murphy, the man who prosecuted Alger Hiss. Also brought out during the reading of Luchese's testimony...
...Committee to Help America by Aiding the Allies, but Conant still feels that "probably most of the alumni and surely the majority of the faculty felt as I did on the subject of intervention." Conant's stand was no matter of purely academic importance; he, Wendell Willkie, and Fiorello LaGuardia were the last three witnesses called by the Roosevelt Administration to support its position on the Lend-Lease Bill in the Spring of 1941. The bill passed, and shortly afterwards, FDR appointed Conant to establish better scientific liason with the British...