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Rule 2. He must look good-but not too good-in newsreels and portraits. U.S. voters like their candidates big, broad-shouldered, modestly handsome. Citizens generally refrain from voting for a politician who makes them laugh-unless, like New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the man is obviously an expert caper-cutter. At the same time they suspect any candidate who gestures as if he went to dramatic school, and doubly suspect one handsome enough to inspire a faraway look in their wives' eyes...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had dreamed of marching to glory as a brigadier general. Last week he discovered that he was merely an expendable. When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!" Forthwith Fiorello was dumped overboard by the President, a casualty of Franklin Roosevelt's new policy of appeasing Congress...
...This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
...military "eyes." The eyes, better known as Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, the President now recalled from the post of Minister to New Zealand. He assigned General Hurley as a "utility man" in the Middle East. Next he prepared to send New York City's bumptious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia overseas, presumably as a brigadier general (see p. 12) to North Africa...
...World War I, New York City's bouncy little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was a ball of buna in the U.S. Air Service. From his base in Italy, he soared on bombing raids over the Alps, haggled with his superiors, smuggled steel out of Spain, cracked protocol like crockery...