Word: fiorello
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...Geneva, Chairman Fiorello H. La Guardia treated his colleagues of the UNRRA council to a tonic tantrum. His chief targets...
...Buffalo Bill to the Lone Ranger, wore a Stetson. After the Boer War, famed General R. S. S. Baden-Powell ordered 10,000 Stetsons for his South African police, setting the style for thousands of police and military institutions to follow (including Canada's Mounties, the Texas Rangers, Fiorello LaGuardia). The Oxford English Dictionary picked up the name Stetson as a synonym...
...really made the pots boil was not acting like a candidate at all. He was Fiorello LaGuardia and he was fuming over a foaming glass of beer in Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week dumpy Butch LaGuardia, who has been wont to characterize New York City's leading Democrats as "those political bums," bobbed up in the middle of a meaty Democratic stew. No Democrat at all (he is a member of the American Labor Party), he was suddenly a darling of the Democratic bigwigs and a leading contender for their U.S. Senate nomination...
...Mead's stooges quietly let it be known that they were all for good old Fiorello. Even Manhattan's Tammany Hall leaders, who had been Fiorello's whipping boys during his dozen ding-dong years as New York City's Mayor, liked the idea. The C.I.O.-P.A.C. thought it was wonderful. There was strong talk that if the Democrats made Butch their candidate the A.L.P. would put him and Jim Mead at the top of their ticket, too. A boom was born...
...winning in November depended on piling up an immense majority in New York City. Could a Mead-Lehman ticket do it? The realistic answers came out no. But it was too late to head off Jim Mead. Perhaps it was not too late to by-pass Herbert Lehman for Fiorello, New York City's best vote getter of modern times...