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After a few deep breaths U.N. attaches did a little checking, discovered that stocky, 46-year-old Jimmy O'Neill not only meant what he said, but was capable of carrying out his offer. His Lincoln Warehouse Corp. had moved furniture for ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, many another famous New Yorker. It had carried out huge moving jobs for Tiffany's, General Electric, Radio Corporation of America. Happily, U.N. accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Insurance | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...their boss, defiantly puffing cigar smoke at the stars, was unmoved by beauty. Sick of his job as UNRRA head, Fiorello H. LaGuardia sent up a tenor shout that carried over the quiet water: "I'd like to cause a fight so that they'd throw me out right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Roofless House | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Fiorello LaGuardia and his clothes stood out in Paris: at a full-blown gala at the Opera he was the only man wearing a business suit. In Geneva, begloved and Homburg-hatted city fathers who greeted him at the airport found him in the shade of a cowboy hat. But playing chess with Tito in Yugoslavia he was the picture of conservative correctness-though, sitting there in long, profound silence, he was not the picture of LaGuardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Romans who knew enough English to pun called him "The Little Flour." UNRRA Director Fiorello LaGuardia snapped right back with a warning that, although he knew food supplies were low, the Italians could not expect more help from abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: For Keeps? | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...Washington, B.C., UNRRA Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia, with a sudden and acute stroke of his bristling pen, halted all but emergency shipments to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Thunder | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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