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Most ominous Cabinet member is iron-fisted General Martinez Anido, Minister of Public Order, who for the past ten months has headed Franco's secret police, his hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's late Dictator, Primo de Rivera (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), suppressed Communists and Anarchists in Barcelona with such vigor that they retaliated by nicknaming him. "The Epileptic Pig." His nature has not softened...
Fortunately for the whole community, however, Judge Mahoney has been unable to advance a single valid reason why the incumbent Fusion administration should be turned out of office. Vainly searching for an issue, he has charged La Guardia with extravagance, with mismanaging the City's finances, with undertaking "expensive and disastrous" housing projects, with driving businesses from the city, with demoralizing the police, and finally with communion, spiritual and actual, with Communist Russia. In the face of the Fusion record it is hard to see how a normally intelligent man, a justice of the Supreme Court as Mahoney...
...three platoon system in the fire department and the eight hour day for nurses in city hospitals, and the restoration of depression pay cuts. Furthermore, the Tammany Board of Estimate has consistently refused to permit the weeding from office of their political parasites, restoring in the face of La Guardia's explosive wrath sixty-four hirelings of no value to the community only in the last week. As for finances, the city's credit is at a higher level than at any time in a generation. The housing and other public projects to which the benevolent Democrat objects take...
LaFollette, a close friend and admirer of Roosevelt, and John Lewis are both men whose hold upon even the progressive element alone in the United States is too shaky to make them serious contenders. There remains but one man of growing national importance:--Fiorello La Guardia. A progressive, pro-labor, a disciple of Franklon Roosevelt and a man of unchallenged integrity, LaGuardia stands to win everything if he is returned to office as Mayor of New York. 1940 will most likely see Henry Wallace facing Vandenburg and if eight years of Roosevelt magic proves too much...
...pretenses" upon a news dispatch printed in the New York "Herald-Tribune" of August which reported a parade and demonstration of trade unionists and radicals thru New York's Yorktown and Harlem districts, in which Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farm Laborite of Minnesota, made a speech favoring Mayor La Guardia's re-election...