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When bee-busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week boom-buzzed into office (by a slim plurality of 133,841) as New York City's first third-term mayor, a crack in the Democratic Party widened to a crevasse...
...York's mayoralty election, steatopygous Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whose tongue is a potent weapon but an unruly member, cut loose with an all-out show for the voters, mixing mock tears with invective, prayers with abuse, fireworks with slaps of the cold towel. His language got him in the kind of trouble he likes best: name-calling. The little rump-sprung Mayor, who has been campaigning New York City for 24 years, had a far shrewder appreciation than his opponents of the delicate art of abuse. He started the ball rolling by putting the name of Governor Herbert Lehman...
...jovial White House press conference he endorsed hen-shaped little Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republican candidate for a third term as Mayor of New York City...
...three good reasons for giving the Little Flower a hand: 1) the Mayor had risked his own political neck to back Franklin Roosevelt for a third term; 2) LaGuardia is one of the most ardent supporters of the President's foreign policy; 3) the President really thinks that Fiorello LaGuardia is the best mayor New York City ever...
...Saturday night, after Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello LaGuardia had described the new 50.000 watt transmitter's insurance against wartime interruption (if power lines fail, it can run on its own generator, pick up the studio by micro-wave), the shift was made from WABC's old antennae near Wayne...