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Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City...
Jesse Jones got tired of electric shocks in his office, put rubber bonnets on all his doorknobs. >> An airport cab starter threatened to knock Fiorello H. LaGuardia's block off when the New York Mayor parked his car across the taxi line. Fiorello offered to lick any three taxi drivers, was led off gesticulating by airline officials. >> General John J. Pershing, 80, lay ill of age's infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came...
...Higher courts upheld Justice McGeehan's decision not on its merits but on technicalities. One obstacle: New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia blocked the Board of Higher Education by refusing to let the city's counsel appeal the case...
...next day the Mayor hurried to Washington for a conference with the President. For weeks Fiorello LaGuardia has been turning down appeals to head the civilian defense organization of the U.S. He has been holding out for a job with Cabinet status. Last week, the day after Manhattan's sensational rally, he gave in. But when asked if he would keep on being Mayor he ducked by saying that it was up to the voters. Already co-chairman of the joint Canadian-U.S. defense board, he will divide his time between New York City and Washington...
Washington made no bones about the biggest effect it wanted to achieve: to make the war real and immediate to ordinary U.S. citizens. It was generally agreed that the Mayor's new job could be about whatever he wanted to make it. There was every likelihood that bustling Fiorello was determined to make...