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Suddenly last week the silence and serenity were rent by a voice not heard in New York since it was stilled by the death of the 72nd Congress last March. Short, swart, muscular Fiorello Henry La Guardia, insurgent Republican from Manhattan's Italian district who lost his House seat to a Tammany man in the Roosevelt landslide, raised his voice loudly to demand public support for one of the most startling coalition tickets ever proposed...
...Senator Samuel Shortridge of California for the Federal judgeship President Coolidge handed him in 1928. Samuel Shortridge Jr., son of the Republican Senator, thanked Judge Louderback for the fat receivership fees he was handed in his court. Last week the House thanked New York's swart little La Guardia, watchdog of the U. S. Judiciary, for digging up evidence that resulted in Judge Louderback's impeachment...
Last September Representative La Guardia led a House subcommittee...
Francisco to investigate unsavory stories about Judge Louderback's administration of the bankruptcy laws. At the hearing Judge Louderback sneered haughtily at the New Yorker. On the evidence collected a majority of the House Judiciary Committee decided that Judge Louderback should only be censured. But Representative La Guardia was for impeachment. Last week when the censure resolution came up in the House, he took the floor with such a fiery speech that the House reversed its committee and voted (183-to-142) to order the California jurist before the Senate for trial and possible removal from office...
...your hand. Come on, drop it down to me." The youth stared down dully. "Throw me your gun, that's a good fellow," coaxed Representative Maas. The revolver, loaded and cocked, plunked down into the Minnesotan's open hand. Simultaneously New York's stocky little La Guardia, also a wartime aviator, who had dashed directly to the gallery, helped capture the young man from behind. Representatives sneaked sheepishly back to the floor from the cloakrooms. The teller vote was resumed. The Congressional Record made no mention of the interruption. The youth told police he was Marlin Kemmerer...