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Fiorello La Guardia's 64-year-old sister, Gemma, turned up in Berlin, after nearly a year in a Nazi prison. She had lost track of her Hungarian-Jewish husband, arrested with her in Budapest. Her captors, said she, had explained: "Your brother is a great friend of Roosevelt. When we catch this infamous relative of yours, we'll hang him in Berlin and you'll be there to watch...
Panamanian President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia heard last week that the National Assembly, due to convene on Jan. 2, might oust him from the Presidency, which he seized by "Constitutional" flimflam in 1941. He decided to do something about it. By summary decree he dissolved the Assembly and suspended the Constitution. He also imposed strict censorship and posted mounted police around the hostile National Youth Congress...
Into this barnyard mess squawked New York City's egg-shaped Mayor La Guardia to peck at the Government for failing to give the consumer the benefit of its egg buying. Said he: "It is unscientific, uneconomical, unfair and most wasteful and sinful for the Government to buy eggs to support the market . . . and expect to sell them to the consumers at the same price, These eggs ought to be sold for about 75% of ceiling price to the consumer. The Government could then recoup 75% of its investment and the consumer would get the benefit of low-priced...
...denounced the high price of opera more eloquently than New York City's operatic Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia. Last week he began practicing what he had preached, sponsored a highly promising opera company of the City's own. He had been itching to do so ever since two years ago, when the City inherited a massive masterpiece of Turkish-bath rococo, formerly known as Mecca Temple, which had succumbed through tax delinquency...
Costa Rica's Presidential campaign, so bitter that it threatened civil war (TIME, Feb. 14), ended last week in a comparatively peaceful election (two were killed in an interior village). The winners: 1) Teodoro Picado, candidate of incumbent President Rafael Calderón Guardia's Republicans and of the Leftist Vanguardia Popular; 2) Costa Rica, which kept its status as the only democracy in dictator-ridden Central America...