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Remembering a costly lesson learned by the U.S. in the years 1919-33, New York's straight-grained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week wrote his Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "Owing to the increased taxes on liquor there might be created a temptation to bootleg. Therefore I wish you would make every effort to nip any such tendency immediately...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who is also U.S. Director of Civilian Defense, told the first-night audience that New York has enough anti-air raid equipment to cover but a small part of the city. That day he wrote to Congress asking adequate equipment for "every police department in every city...
...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt an nounced that she will report for duty bright & early next Monday morning on her new job as an assistant to New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, chief of the Office of Civilian Defense. Franklin Roosevelt's lady will look out for the women in defense...
Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...
...Duchess when the couple go to Canada. The U.S. State Department has issued them only transit visas, ∙ ∙ After a three-month separation the First Lady of Ethiopia has left Britain to join Haile Selossie in Addis Ababa, ∙ ∙ When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged off. ∙ ∙ In Portland, Ore., an empty car rolled away from the curb...