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...advice of his Attorney General, President Hoover signed the Norris-La Guardia bill outlawing "yellow-dog" contracts between employer and employe and curbing the injunctive power of U. S. courts in labor disputes...
...buzzard and a short, chunky New York lawyer with a mop of shiny black hair. The first was Robert Lee Doughton, a Democrat who has served 20 years in the House and is a member of the Ways & Means Committee. The second was Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry La Guardia, an insurgent Republican in the House since the War. Poles apart on politics and personality they were united last week in a great and vehement opposition to the 2¼% Sales Tax on manufactures in the budget-balancing revenue bill. Together they were able to muster a majority of the House...
Team. Of the two men, bullnecked Congressman La Guardia was the more vital and forceful insurrectionist. Bora in Manhattan 49 years ago, the son of an Italian musician, he spent most of his early life at Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Ariz., where his father was Army bandmaster. Graduated from New York University in 1910, he turned to politics, was first elected to Congress in 1916. Instead of warming his seat during the War he became a major in the Army, was sent to Italy in command of U. S. aviation forces, flew bombing planes over the Austrian lines. Later he returned...
...House rebel Congressman La Guardia is a dynamo of hostile energy. Alert and quick-witted, he is always on the job. His oratory is loud, passionate, almost physical as his 170-lb. body crouches and bends and his chunky arms thrash the air. He is one of the best parliamentarians in the House. Representing a poor upper-East-Side district of Manhattan, he has developed a political philosophy which is definitely radical. He distrusts wealth, individual or corporate, believes it should somehow be redistributed for the good of all. Yet he does not sponsor crack-brained ideas for easy hand...
...Rejected a resolution by New York's La Guardia urging the Governor of California to pardon Thomas Mooney...