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Tammany & Corruption. In 1929 after Governor Roosevelt had settled down comfortably at Albany a mayoralty campaign was held in New York City. Congressman Fiorello La Guardia. the Republican nominee, charged wholesale Tammany graft and corruption, named one Magistrate Albert Vitale as the borrower of $20,000 from Arnold Rothstein, murdered gambler. The Republican Legislature ordered an investigation. Governor Roosevelt vetoed the measure. Vitale was removed from office by a higher court. The stench of scandal continued. A U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges...
Terror of the dictatorship of paunchy Miguel Primo de Rivera was the quick-triggered, shiny-hatted Guardia Civil. Since the foundation of the Republic those formidable constables have been meek as lambs. Fortnight ago a riot broke out in Castilblanco. Four of the Guardia Civil lost their lives, and since then they have stood no more nonsense. After Castilblanco there were a half-dozen clashes between guards and strikers throughout Spain. Twenty-four people were killed; in one stretch of 48 hours eleven citizens died, 60 were wounded. In the Cortes. Socialist deputies threatened a general strike and attacked...
...city to the former Royal Palace, with a clattering escort of silver-cuirassed Presidential Guards. He was followed by blue-clad naval cadets, red-trousered regulars. Basque Miquelitos with pantaloons and scarlet berets, the khaki-clad Foreign Legion, Moorish cavalry in white bournouses, and the yellow-belted, shiny-hatted guardia civil. Even the sappers joined the parade, proudly carrying pontoons and bridge parts. The air force added a final touch. Squadrons of planes flew overhead scattering 400,000 copies of the new Constitution over the city...
Next to the Baruch plan, the most arresting proposal the Commission heard last week came from New York's swart little Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia. A War aviator, Representative La Guardia wanted a constitutional amendment to allow a wartime Government to declare a moratorium, nationalize all industry, ration the entire civil population and conscript everyone "from Texas Guinan to J. P. Morgan." Ships, railroads, everything would be taken over without compensation and returned later to their owners without damage payments. Testified this Republican insurgent...
...crazed, were shot by Marines as they tried to drink the polluted lake waters. Soldiers shot two grave diggers who refused to go on with their heart-breaking task. Saturday night, as Marines snatched a moment of sleep, a loud fusillade rang out. A U. S. lieutenant and a Guardia sergeant. both nerve-frazzled beyond self-control, had gone at each other with pistol and submachine gun. The lieutenant was killed...