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...York City Hall, she was greeted officially by sturdy, splenetic Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. She sat in a leather chair while the Mayor introduced her to city officials, then rose majestically, took a sheet of paper out of her handbag and, with hardly an accent, read her reply. As the first Dutch ruler ever to visit the New World, she was sorrowful that she had come "under the shadow...
...teachers raised Cain. They not only asserted that New York City's schools were so "dangerously" overcrowded that no teachers could be spared-a point wrathfully denied by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-but also stomped angrily, 1,000 strong, to the Board of Education meeting. The Board tried to placate them by electing as their new boss (to succeed the late Superintendent Harold G. Campbell) genial John E. Wade, 64, who had come up from the ranks as a city schoolteacher. Superintendent Wade tried to placate them by batting up a new scheme: instead of firing 125 teachers, retire...
...Fiorello By Any Other Name...
When reporters asked Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (who had previously vetoed as premature a move to name a drive after General MacArthur) how he felt about changing the name of New York's LaGuardia Airport to MacArthur Field, the Mayor observed spontaneously and artlessly: It's still a good airport. A good field by any name...
Little, intense Mrs. Rosenberg, friend and confidante of Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia and many another bigwig, freely admitted that her outside salary came from R. H. Macy-Bamberger (department stores), who paid her $20,000, and I. Miller (shoes), who paid her $2,500, for giving them advice on labor relations. The other $6,000 came from Nelson Rockefeller, for the same kind of advice and help on "speeches for graduation and commencement exercises...