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Followed by tail-coated plenipotentiaries, duck-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week borrowed a nickel, pressed through the turnstiles into the subterranean maze. Donning a conductor's cap, he posed at the controls of a shiny new train, then settled back with proud satisfaction as it slithered off through the spotless white tunnel which even smelled clean. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Subway had been opened...
...exile, Tugwell first took a flyer in the sugar business. His next job was the chairmanship of Fiorello LaGuardia's New York City Planning Commission. In this job, he had time to reflect on two things: 1 ) the fact that his more discreet friend, Adolph A. Berle Jr., whose economics are even less laissez-fairist than his, nevertheless managed to be an eminently respectable Assistant Secretary of State; 2) the long-range problem of integrating municipal spending and taxing with Federal fiscal policy...
...Fiorello H. LaGuardia: "... A shameful campaign for a shameless candidate..... There may be such a thing as a . . decent utility man, but I have never met him. . . . Some men have their hair mussed because their brains are working, others because the photographers are working...
...Socialist I am voting for President Roosevelt this year because I do not feel that Norman Thomas is realistic regarding the present world crisis." Norman Thomas: "It's a phony campaign. . . ." General Hugh S. Johnson: "Mayor LaGuardia says that if he [Wendell Willkie] is a businessman, Fiorello is an eagle...
Secretary of War Henry Stimson was expected to resign about Jan. 1. For the vacancy New Dealers wishfully promoted Robert P. Patterson, now Assistant Secretary. But best indications were that Patterson would go with Stimson. New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was still a strong possibility...