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Seventh, adjustment of private debts through the passage of the McKeownLa Guardia bill, providing that when '66 2-3 per cent of the creditors of a corporation agree upon a plan of settlement or reorganization, this shall be binding upon the minority. The proposal passed the House, but failed in the Senate last February and was not pressed in the extra session...
Whom asked about New York city's new mayor, Steffens commented, "La Guardia is a fine fellow, progressive, and has some excellent ideas; but sooner or later he will become 'mayor of New York.' It will take him a year, or perhaps, if he is especially strong, two years; but eventually he cannot escape acting like a 'mayor of New York' and thinking like a 'mayor of New York.' Likewise Roosevelt ceases being Roosevelt and becomes president of the University States. In this capacity he is merely a factor in the continually undulating evolutions of American political thought...
...thus avoiding the gastronomic promiscuity of his predecessors, however, Mr. La Guardia gains many advantages not directly beneficial to the state. For him the five banquets an evening usually attended by the gleaming Walker in his prime might prove too enlarging an experience. The art of toying delicately with the fifth consecutive rice compote, affecting delight where none exists, is not a virtue granted to all. And then, there is the matter of dinner clothes and neat white ties, a problem which, as in the case of ex-Mayor O'Brien, may baffle the best of mayors...
...aside from all possible ulterior motives, Mr. La Guardia's desertion of the toastmaster's pedestal is admirably in accord with the times. It represents the banishment to triviality of a function which his forerunners have allowed to assume undue proportion. Having withdrawn as a public entertainer, Mayor-elect La Guardia may perhaps conduct a regime noted for something more substantial than the well-fitting tuxedo and elegant bon mots of its leader...
...order to remove necessity of your voting today I have consented to decide outcome of New York, Boston, and Cambridge elections. In New York the Seabureezes will blow La Guardia into office over Religious Joseph and the Sea Lion of City Hall. In Cambridge they're busy Russelling up votes to keep from being Lynched out of office, but present mayor will be given additional chance to close Quincy Street...