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...city and county posts in the November 7 election pledge themselves to uphold the anti-Communist resolution. One leader hesitated: chubby Michael Joseph Quill, president of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers, (trolleys, taxis, busses, subways). Mike Quill is politically potent, a generally stanch backer of Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, and one of five A. L. P. members of New York's City Council. With many Communists in his hive, he has followed the party beeline, was suspected of following it this week in San Francisco, where he was a divisive force...
...American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy of democracies," said it had no "big brother" and would accept "no ersatz for God Almighty...
...York City's Hitler-hating Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia broadcast that he would allow no protest rallies before foreign consulates, urged against provocations at public meetings, warned: "The battles will be fought on the fields of Europe. They cannot be fought or settled in the streets of New York...
Furious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told off his police, later snarled to reporters: "I didn't carry any medals down to Police Headquarters." It turned out that Lepke had strolled the streets of New York City for two years, had done some drinking "downtown," disguised only by 20 pounds of fat and a thin black mustache...
Last week peace came to New York City's embattled milk shed after a nine-day war that had halved the city's daily 4,000,000-quart milk supply. It was brought by astute, little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia who negotiated the settlement. Its results...