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...Fiorello LaGuardia, old-scold columnist for 1) PM, 2) Sachs Quality Stores, tired of having his Sachs column rejected by Manhattan papers,* wrote something different, prayed in print: "I hope no fault will be found with it." Bulk of his column: Little Bopeep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, three other nursery favorites. That got printed-except by the Daily News...
Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, which is loudly "against people who push other people around," is itself probably journalism's No. 1 pusher-arounder. Its Editor Ralph McAllister Ingersoll last week directed a hearty shove at one of his own columnists, Fiorello LaGuardia. Wrote Ingersoll...
...Bill O'Dwyer's side in the transit crisis. He certainly should be-since he's the fellow who got Bill O'Dwyer into his present fix. ... If O'Dwyer gets into trouble, LaGuardia can always quote him another fable or two in PM. Fiorello won't have to take...
...American Labor Party's busy doorbell ringers were not quite enough to elect their beloved Commentator Johannes Steel (TIME, Feb. 18) to Congress. Candidate Steel, endorsed by Fiorello LaGuardia, Henry Wallace and the Communist Daily Worker, lost to Democratic wheel horse Arthur G. Klein by 4,000 votes...
...Argentina vied to honor Brazil's new President Eurico Gaspar Dutra. Both sent distinguished representatives to his inaugural-the U.S., Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Argentina, Vice President Juan Pistarini. Both sent their best warships. On the sleek, British-built cruiser La Argentina (6,000 tons), President Dutra received the collar of San Martin. Aboard the mighty carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (45,000 tons),he watched 75 warplanes roar into the air, but got no medal. Both the U.S. and Argentina scheduled-the same evening-lavish embassy receptions. President Dutra solved that problem by attending both, became the first Brazilian President...