Word: fiorello
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...Everybody knew Johnny Dunn was a killer, but nobody could pin it on him. During the war some small brass in the Army even tried to get him out of stir (he was doing time for coercion) because his services as a transportation expert were much in demand. Furious Fiorello La Guardia put a stop to that. The only mote in Johnny Dunn's sighting eye was Anthony Hintz, the hiring boss on Pier 51 at the Hudson River foot of Manhattan's Jane Street. Andy Hintz wouldn't play ball with the hoods and their following...
...hardest part of the job was the final editing. To get down to a 45-minute playing time, they had to drop such highlights as Gandhi urging nonresistance, Fiorello La Guardia reading the comics over New York City's station WNYC, and a musical background that was to include such popular songs of the Depression as Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? and Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf...
...named in honor of the late Fiorello La Guardia: streets in Tel Aviv, Lyon, and Wroclaw, Poland, a hospital in Foggia, Italy, and a school in Prague...
...loved to goggle at the late Fiorello La Guardia, a squat fire hydrant of a man who gushed forth sympathy, abuse and ideas on everything under the neon lights. India, without the help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...
...Truman. During the nine-day celebration, the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will demonstrate their latest aircraft. For the city the celebration will hold a broader significance. A field capable of moving 1,000 flights a day comes close to the commercial air supremacy predicted by Fiorello H. La Guardia when he called for the "best damn airport in the world...