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...Board of Education, even more impressed by protests from Catholic groups than by their responsibility toward innocence, decided not to teach "mammalian reproduction." But Mr. Buck was not done. He sent his secretary, Eugene R. Canudo (onetime secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia) to make an investigation into youthful sex problems in the nation's biggest city. Mr. Canudo collected literature on sex education. He also went to the courts, the police, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Last week he brought back a report that caused the Board of Education to reconsider its decision. Salient facts...
Into the office of New York City's Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia last week marched indignant New York City florists. Their complaint: School principals, sympathizing with depression-pinched parents, had nipped in the bud an old U. S. custom: flowers at graduation. Cried Spokesman Anthony Gillis (to no avail): "Every year we look forward to graduation. Now flowers are forbidden. This goes to show there is something wrong somewhere...
...economizers on Senator Adams' committee were asked by David Lasser, head of the Workers Alliance: "Is the majority in this Congress trying deliberately to provoke a situation of social disorder?"; were told by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, president of the United States Conference of Mayors: "Havoc will be rife throughout the nation." A committee of actors & artists visited Washington bearing petitions with 200,000 signatures demanding continuance of WPA arts projects. Cafeteria, hotel & restaurant workers telegraphed en masse. Senator Adams got one telegram which was delivered as follows: "Are you a man or a delete...
...best" Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 would be Racket Buster Tom Dewey, picked by 12.2% of all adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...
Last fall New York City's loquacious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was sued for $100,000 slander by one William Weidberg, 32. Brooklyn lawyer who charged that when he heckled the Mayor at a political rally, the Mayor called him a "ginmill bum." Last week a New York State Supreme Court decision dismissed the action, called the words "at their worst, merely abusive and ill-chosen...