Word: fiorello
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...rumors swirled up again, as heady as the smell of garlic to New York's duck-bottomed little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. But he would have none of them. Had he not been deceived 17 months ago? Then he had gone confidently to a Manhattan haberdasher and bought a resplendent gabardine uniform, suitable for one silver star, had waited for orders to fly to North Africa, perhaps dreaming of marching into Rome at the head of U.S. columns. But a Congressional hubbub over "political generals" had stopped the appointment cold; Franklin Roosevelt sent to Italy two other New York Democrats...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last fortnight filed incorporation papers for a city health-insurance plan. He hopes it will get started by January with 190,000 city-employe subscribers. But all New Yorkers earning less than $5,000 a year will be eligible...
Marshal Tito sent his three-year-old, battle-worn pistol to New York City's battling Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia-acknowledging the Mayor's message of admiration for the Partisans. The Mayor, a World War I veteran who did not succeed last year in getting a brigadier generalship, expressed his belligerent thanks: "Now that Tito has given me the gun, I hope my own government will give me the opportunity to use it ... before it is too late...
...over the land, people were thinking of Dday. New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced a street service to be held in Madison Square on the day; Maryland's Governor Herbert O'Conor asked all liquor stores to close for the rest of the day on receipt of the invasion news. And in Washington, OWI Chief Elmer Davis pleaded that there be no commercial exploitation of Dday...
...York City's famed Park Commissioner Robert Moses does not like criticism. Like his boss, Fiorello LaGuardia, he has been long in office, is conscious that he has served the public well, is self-righteous, cantankerous, and never admits that he is mistaken. Like other cantankerously honest men, he enjoys being rude...