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...Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. The 103rd Mayor of New York City (second tough est political job in the U. S.) is the greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Going into government does not mean going into politics. If you go into government, for God's sake be unorthodox. I don't think I would have lasted five minutes in any party," Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City, told 350 Seniors in Eliot House last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LaGuardia Speaks Twice, Urges Social Progress, Hits Nazis' 'Brutal Invasion' of Norway, Denmark | 4/12/1940 | See Source »

Seniors who attend the special dinner in Eliot House at 6:15 tonight will not only hear Fiorello La Guardia speak, but will also be treated to a steak dinner and free beer and cigaretts, it was announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA GUARDIA ATTENDS 1940 DINNER TONIGHT | 4/11/1940 | See Source »

Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, one of Harvard's busiest undergraduates, is now a one-man organization and in that capacity is sponsoring Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's speech in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marvin's One-Man La Guardia Coup Annoys PBH, Dunster Forum, Alumni | 4/11/1940 | See Source »

...four years the Harvard Student Union has wanted to bring Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to the campus. Twice he had accepted invitations; but press of business prevented his appearance. Now the Mayor is coming to Harvard, but the Student Union does not care to sponsor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/11/1940 | See Source »

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