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Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York City said in a speech today that "you cannot feed people on epigrams, no matter hew snappy they are." and the 1940 Presidential candidates "semingly cannot be specific" on national issues...
Once upon a time Mayor La Guardia assigned a Jewish policeman to guard the German Consulate in New York. To Clare Boothe the Mayor's little joke was a God-send. Around the consul she built an extenuated murder mystery which at one time was ready to involve all the non-Aryans in Hitland. She gave him six fellow characters all with good reason to kill him. Miss Boothe called it "Margin For Error," and after a long run in New York, almost as much a mystery as the plot, it reopened last night at the Plymouth...
...discuss the topic "Propaganda and American Democracy," several nationally known figures have been sent invitations. The government's view, Guardian officers hope, will be represented by Congressman Martin Dies, Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. and La-Guardia. Other possible speakers include: Waiter Mills, author of "The Road to War;" Boywood Broun: Walter Lippmann; Frieda Kirehway, editor of the "Nation;" Lloyd Free, editor of "The Political Science Quarterly;" and Max Lerner...
...Episcopalian) banned the picketing of churches. He wrote his Police Commissioner: "There is no labor dispute involved, and in this country, where freedom of religion is guaranteed, theological differences or even philosophical controversies are not contemplated in the law permitting picketing. . . . There is nothing in the Norris-La-Guardia Act which permits the picketing of God. I ought to know...
After losing to Lehman in the 1984 gubernatorial contest, Moses was appointed to his present task of coordinating the city park and parkway systems by Mayor La Guardia. He is also head of the Triborough Bridge and Henry Hudson Parkway Authorities, and a member of the New York World's Fair Commission...