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...Back in Washington after stopping off in New York to "meet" re-elected Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (see p. 15), the President had traveled 114,008 miles in office, finally passed by eight miles the record established by William Howard Taft in 1909-13. In his press conference Mr. Roosevelt sparred with reporters by comparing a speculative stock market with speculative news stories (see p. 75). He then settled down for a series of talks with Congressional leaders over plans for a program on farm aid and wages-&-hours for the special session opening Nov. 15. Other callers included Unemployment...
What made these auguries even more empty than usual last week was the plain fact that neither had a bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate...
Perhaps more a one-man political party than the leader of any potential third party, Fiorello LaGuardia, re-elected Mayor of New York City last week (see col. 1), got 672,823 votes as the Republican candidate, 159,895 votes as the Fusion candidate, and 28,839 as a Progressive. But 482,459 of the votes that gave him his 454,425 plurality came from an organization that has never before appeared on a New York mayoralty ballot, the American Labor Party, which polled more votes than any independent political organization has received in a U. S. municipal election since...
...more significant change, the advent of a new administration. City College is ruled by a Board of Higher Education of 21 members, who are appointed by the Mayor for nine-year terms. For 20 years board and college had been ruled by Tammany Hall. Since 1934 Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had made inroads on this regime by appointing nine members to vacancies. But when three more terms expired last June, and one of his appointees resigned, the Mayor, on the verge of transferring control of higher education from Tammany to Fusion, was stumped to fill the four places...
...candidate can be found who combines honesty with great ability, the current mayoralty campaign in New York City sees for the first time in a generation the forces of corruption arrayed in a clean-cut warfare with those who are in favor of honest municipal government. The incumbers mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, backed by the Republican, Fusion, and American Labor parties in the city, has managed the affairs of the nation's greatest city with such honesty and vision in the last four years that, although he rode into office on the wave of a reform movement combined with a split...