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...LaGuardia accused U. S. Judge Frank Cooper of the Northern New York District of dry entrapments. Judge Cooper was censured by the House Judiciary Committee. Last year Mr. La-Guardia led his colleagues to impeach U. S. Judge Francis Asbury Winslow of Manhattan for misconduct in bankruptcy cases. Judge Winslow resigned under fire. At present Mr. LaGuardia is actively pressing impeachment charges against U. S. District Judge Grover M. Moskowitz of Brooklyn...
...Debate on Prohibition Enforcement between Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia (Wet) of New York and Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Dry) of Iowa under auspices of Cleveland Advertising Club, in Cleveland...
...York City. Tammany's Mayor James John Walker beat Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia for the No. 1 municipal office in the U. S. by an eight-to-three margin. The only surprise in the election was a large "protest" vote given Socialist Norman Thomas (174,931 out of 1,314,820 votes cast). Said Mayor Walker: "One great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People...
...York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried...
...Later Socialists in Congress, both from New York: Meyer London (1915–'19; 1921-23), Fiorella Henry La Guardia (1917-19; 1923- ). Mr. La Guardia, now Republican designee for Mayor of New York, was temporarily (1925-27) tagged a Socialist when endorsed by that party. He denounced the label as a "dirty Republican trick...