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Inspired by what happened when Governor Herbert Lehman gave young Thomas Edmund Dewey a free hand to clean up New York County (Manhattan) as special prosecutor three years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five far-flung boroughs. Created under the new city charter was a $10,000 job, the Mayor's Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey...
...President, Senator or Cabinet member, bring greater kudos. He would be a dull New York mayor indeed who did not tour the U. S. to give voters outside of New York a chance to look him over. No dullard is the incumbent, stumpy, staccato, hard-working New Deal Republican Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry LaGuardia. He is also a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt who has announced that there is a place for Liberal Republicans in his future plans for the nation. Last week Mayor LaGuardia was in the midst of a transcontinental tour after which thousands of voters...
...travels west (by a politically straight but geographically roundabout route to the American Legion Convention at Los Angeles), New York's watchful little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia carried two watches: one running on New York time, the other on the railroad...
Four years ago Manhattan's spunky 5 ft. 4 in. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia began bucking Postmaster General Jim Farley, Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark...
Last week, Newark Airport suddenly found itself all spruced up with apparently no place to go. For, with the $23,000,000, 550-acre North Beach project half completed, energetic Fiorello LaGuardia had won commitments from aviation's big five-Pan American Airways, American. United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air-that they would begin using the new field when it is opened officially next April 30. Pan American, which does not use Newark, planned to move in from its own base ten miles away at Port Washington. The others cagily announced they would use both North Beach...