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...expensive speaker," warned New York City's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a letter to Milwaukee's Town Hall. He sounded pretty chipper for a man who had just had a serious operation for chronic pancreatitis (in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital). "I want $1,000. For that money you can get a lot of better speakers. If you still want me, sign here." Milwaukee signed...
...surprise victory in 1944, but he was too predictably dull; Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings stood too far to the political right; New York's ex-Senator Jim Mead had been beaten to a frazzle by Tom Dewey last November; and New York's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was just a little too unpredictable. New York's present Mayor Bill O'Dwyer fitted a lot of the requirements, but he is constitutionally ineligible, since he was born in Eire...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, for "public service . . . fearless expression ... of the highest ideals of One World," went the annual One World Award established in memory of Wendell Willkie...
...explanation that did not satisfy such protesters as the Metropolitan Opera, Fiorello LaGuardia or Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, longtime friend of Puccini, made public his telegram to President Truman: "[I] implore you to forbid this greedy diversion of great Italian musical art . . . you, who are a passionate lover of music...
...opposition to the Truman Doctrine was vehement. It came from isolationists like the New York Daily News, from pacifists like the National Council for Prevention of War, from Russophiles like Senator Claude Pepper, from liberals like Fiorello LaGuardia, who would feed the starving of Greece but leave Greece's Communist troubles to U.N. It came from such Red outposts as the Daily Worker and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. But for all its vehemence it was scattered. No one man had yet sounded the cry around which all factions could rally...