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They listened approvingly to experts on everything. Indefatigable Harold Stassen* was there to talk about world cooperation. Fiery Fiorello LaGuardia made a moving plea for UNRRA. Physicist Harold C. Urey and Major General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of atomic energy, explained nuclear fission...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, who walks less delicately than Agag, was dropped by his sore-shinned radio sponsor. Five months after Liberty handed him "the freedom of the air," the magazine called it quits. The loud Little Flower was "at variance with our policies," as Publisher Paul Hunter put it. Reported LaGuardia: "Mr. Hunter ... told me . . . the advertisers didn't like my Sunday night radio program. They were pressing him hard. I have lost Liberty," he cried, "but I retain my soul...
...suggestions. Herbert Hoover wanted a temporary U.N. Food Administration to coordinate the world effort after Sept. 1, but "only during the period of food scarcity and agricultural reconstruction from the war." "The world," he said, "must quit charity as a basis for widespread food distribution" after Sept. 1. Fiorello LaGuardia snapped: "It is impossible to take a stop watch and say at a given hour on a given day, 'We are not going to give you any more food...
...doing on its food commitments abroad? This week UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia, who does not believe in nonsense, told the unvarnished facts. The record added up to the worst failure...
...Fiorello LaGuardia was back in New York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...