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...members are Lieut. General Stanley Dunbar Embick, Commander of the Fourth Corps Area, charged with Atlantic coastal defense; Captain Harry W. Hill of the Navy's War Plans' Division; New York City's omnipresent Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Commander Forrest Sherman of the Navy and Lieut. Colonel Joseph T. McNarney of the Army Air Corps, who will alternate on aviation questions; and the State Department's Assistant Chief of the European Affairs Division John Dewey Hickerson...
...which with all its bustle last week still had the stately, leisurely air which earned it the name "Land of the Afternoon"-a train pulled this week, the rear car of which was painted service khaki. It carried the U. S. members of the Joint Defense Council. Photographers asked Fiorello LaGuardia to stand on the car steps and wave his huge hat, but the mayor put his chin down, refused to pose, and rebuked them: "This isn't exactly a joy ride...
...mayor, in a baggy dark suit and clutching a worn brown drummer's dispatch case, was a picture of determination as the Council members strode off to lunch. Afterward Prime Minister King led them to Parliament House. On the way up the front steps Mr. King stumbled and Fiorello LaGuardia darted to pick him up. The Council retired into the long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their bailiwick...
Engaged. David Rockefeller, 25, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and secretary to New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; and Margaret McGrath of Mount Kisco...
Meanwhile, New York City's impatient Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia phoned Commissioner Studebaker, announced that the city's vocational schools were all ready to train 10,000 mechanics. "When," he demanded, "do we start?" Replied Studebaker: "It's going to start on July 1 or I'll know the reason...