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...tale of the department's Special Squad No. 1, a group which was ordered to infiltrate the party back during World War II, came to light when a secret report to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was made public during Miller's trial. The report, dated April 4, 1944, noted that 28 detectives and policewomen had become dues-paying members of the party and had supplied daily reports on its inner workings. "So deeply did some of our investigators bore into the party," it stated, "that one of them acted as a courier between the American Communist Party...
Most of Jersey's larger cities are traditionally Democratic, and the state has been Republican for ten years, but politicos of both parties have been remarkably astigmatic toward venality great & small. When New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia threw "punks and gamblers" out of town, they migrated, almost as one. to Bergen County, N.J., and for almost ten years no politico seemed to know that they were there...
Contralto Marian Anderson left New York's La Guardia Airport bound for her first concert tour of Japan and a stint of troop entertaining in Korea...
During five years at Albany, Brownell became known as a liberal legislator, pushed through measures that Special Prosecutor Tom Dewey wanted for his crime-busting and those that Fiorello La Guardia wanted to reform New York City's government. His successes came only after he used a prenatal political advantage. Says he: "At first, I couldn't get anything through. And then I found out what the trouble was. Among those upstate Republicans, a Republican from the city was considered worse than a Democrat. After I told them my father came from Madison County and my mother from...
...informal statement after landing at La Guardia Field, he said: "Because one side wants peace doesn't make peace. We must go ahead and do things that induce the others to want peace also...