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...floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd of 2,000 to see the first scheduled airline flight come in to New York City's new $40,000,000 terminal. Said Jack Zimmerman to the Mayor of New York, "This is a swell airport...
Manhattan's Pratt School of Business bestowed on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia a testimonial of special merit. Reason: 30 years ago it had taught him shorthand and typing in 30 hours. The Mayor's counter-testimonial: the day he finished his 30-hour course (cost $7.50), he got a job with Abercrombie & Fitch at $18 a week...
...Indian summery evening last week 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan to praise "America's greatest philosopher." It was John Dewey's 80th birthday, and many distinguished men and women-among them Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih, Charles Beard, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Fiorello LaGuardia-had come to his party. Nine organizations, including the Progressive Education Association and American Philosophical Association, had arranged to honor him. Honor him they did, with oratory and applause. But Dr. Dewey heard them not. He was not in Manhattan, not in Chicago, not in any of a dozen other places where Dewey birthday meetings...
...would have been believed for a minute by the industrious philosophers of 1929. While the echoes of the crash were still rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun itself." Jimmy Walker, defeating Fiorello LaGuardia for Mayor of New York, asked that movie houses show only cheerful pictures in an attempt to brighten the general gloom. A world that saw full-page advertisements offering Manhattan apartments for $45,000 a year, and sable coats for $30,000 to $50,000-a world so jittery...
...Industrious, photo-dramatic, cheek-puffing, eyebrow-waving Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York, was generally considered the best mayor of the world's largest city. Last week even his old rival, Jimmy Walker, admitted...