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This week, as swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sat down in conference with strikers, besieged dealers and handlers, New York City's milk supply was halved. Home and hospital deliveries continued, but bakeries and restaurants received only a trickle...
...York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia jammed his hat on his stubby stubborn head, and flew west. At Chicago last week he descended to do a little troubleshooting. At lunch in the Hotel Sherman he sat down with 700 advertising men. At his left he had Mayor Kelly, who had a World's Fair at home five years ago; at his right he had Charles G. Dawes, whose brother Rufus successfully financed Chicago's Fair. Little Fiorello's job was to convince them all that New York's is a lot better. Said...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is tired of being called the Little Flower. His Government costs $600,000,000 a year...
...House for the $383,000,000 increases which the Senate wrote into the 1940 farm bill (TIME, May 22) and which last week were threshed by House-Senate conferees. Besides Actress Bankhead, another lobbyist for Relief who last week journeyed to Washington from Manhattan was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Having served seven terms in Congress himself, he knew just what to do. He got city men in the House to offer their support of the farm bill increases in return for country men's promises to liberalize the Relief bill...
...Fiorello H. LaGuardia...