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...York City's assortment of political parties was enriched last week by a new one. Its name: the "No Deal" party. Its emblem: a lighted electric bulb. It also had a candidate for mayor: Yaleman Newbold Morris, Republican City Council President and protégé of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who is retiring. (Morris' opponents : Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Republican - Liberal -City Fusion candidate ; former Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, choice of the Democrats and the American Labor Party.) The new party's name, thought up by LaGuardia, was intended to signify that...
...Fiorello La Guardia's 64-year-old sister, Gemma, turned up in Berlin, after nearly a year in a Nazi prison. She had lost track of her Hungarian-Jewish husband, arrested with her in Budapest. Her captors, said she, had explained: "Your brother is a great friend of Roosevelt. When we catch this infamous relative of yours, we'll hang him in Berlin and you'll be there to watch...
Humor was the thing that people missed most. PM carried a resume of a dozen comic strips. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, mugging and gesturing, gave a Sunday radio reading of the Dick Tracy strip, ordered municipal station WNYC to have the comics read each...
...York's busy little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia has long contended that no law-abiding beef slaughterer can make money under OPA's present ceilings for beef. Last week, "Butch" LaGuardia tried to drive home his point, with the help of a Grade-A steer. On Butch's orders, the city bought the steer and had it slaughtered, keeping track of the pound-by-pound cost. The results...
...Years- What? At City Hall, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (who wept during the parade) presented him with a gold medal, introduced him in squeaky superlatives. The General replied: "New York simply can't do this to a Kansas farmer boy and keep its reputation for sophistication." But again, as he talked, he quit smiling. Said he: "Can the parents of those children look ten years ahead and be satisfied with anything less than [their] best to keep them . . . from the horrors of the battlefield...