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...often begin to fit him into a scheme of history. They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses and the Culbert Olsons...
...annual U.S. Mayors' Conference, held last week in Chicago, a Tribune reporter asked New York City's razor-tongued Fiorello LaGuardia if he would consider entering a wastepaper-collecting race with Chicago's tousle-thatched Edward J. Kelly. Cracked hen-shaped Fiorello: "No. . . . Chicago has an unfair advantage. . . . Look at all the people who throw away the Tribune...
...University of California, he resigned when invited to lecture on higher mathematics and logic at Manhattan's City College in 1940. Presently he saw his invitation nullified: Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning charged that Russell, unorthodox on sex questions (Marriage and Morals), was morally unfit to teach; Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia pulled Russell's professorial chair out from under him by unbudgeting his salary...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, who last year raged at Flying Fortress Pilot Jack W. Watson's stunting over the World Series game at the Yankee Stadium, sent Lieut. Watson an "all is forgiven." Watson had brought his blazing, crippled "Meat-hound" back to England after nine crew members bailed out. Said he of the Mayor's forgiveness: "That's good. As long as he's happy, that's the big thing...
...masters, stored in inland safety since Pearl Harbor, began returning to Manhattan museum walls. Bellicose Fiorello LaGuardia, who heretofore had enjoyed an air raid alert as much as a fire, lamely justified the relaxation: "I don't say [Hitler's] not coming over, but I'm sure he cannot come with enough to aim at the pictures and hit the mark...