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...York's peppery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sympathized with the owners and managers, then added, "In my usual spirit of frankness, no local relief [is] in sight." He also inferred for the first time that some emigration from New York City is caused by high city taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: No Relief in Sight | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...press blew high, windy talk of national unity. It was known that Mr. Roosevelt had offered Republican Frank Knox-for the second time-the Secretaryship of the Navy. It was reported that the Labor portfolio had been offered to New York City's baggy, electric Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. It was quite possible that Mr. Landon was next on the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coalition Scuttled | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Columnist Westbrook Pegler led his column: "Now, just a minute. Wait a minute!" New York City's waddly Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia griped that the U. S. couldn't even protect Coney Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reaction | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...annual dinner, addressed by President Conant, Governor Saltonstall '14, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia, mayor of New York City, climaxed the day's program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI TROOP TO NEW YORK FROM ALL OVER COUNTRY FOR ANNUAL MEETING | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...surprise was Franklin Roosevelt's nomination by the Democrats by a whopping majority of no votes. Runner-up: Robert Jackson, 31. For Vice President: Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy. The Republicans chose Senator Arthur Vandenberg for President over Dewey (85-to-46). The "Liberal-Independents": Fiorello LaGuardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Undergraduate Sideshow | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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