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...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
...alarm, the President sent his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, abroad to dramatize the crisis. To prod the public and pressure the farmer, he appointed the Famine Emergency Committee, put crack Administrator Chester Davis at its head. Fiorello LaGuardia bounded onto the scene as director general of UNRRA, to succeed the tired and ailing Lehman. Cried LaGuardia, as he prodded the snail-paced Combined Food Board: "I am going to get wheat, or I am going to tell the world why not! . . . I am not going around like Evangeline Booth with a tambourine in my hand...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, the new boss of UNRRA, tried to do his bit. After busting protocol in Washington to hurry necessary grains to central Europe, he unloaded all his fiery wrath on those people who still insist on eating pie a la mode. Cried he: "Those people, why they simply have no hearts at all. Belly Americans, that's what they are. Fat, rich, gooey pastry in these times! What we need here is a pastry holiday...
Then, at their closing session, UNRRA delegates got a shot of hope & vigor from their new Director General-bumptious, bell-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia...
...never did catch up with his schedule. Last week his February issue, on the stands in London, had not yet reached its 500 U.S. subscribers. When the paper shortage pinched Britain in 1941, Horizon all but starved to death. Appeals from such surprising readers as Manhattan's Fiorello LaGuardia convinced the British Government that the magazine should be kept alive. (Last year it lost only ?30 and considered it a victory...