Word: laguardia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours after the "persuasion" of Mayor Walker, upon the scene arrived Manhattan's short, swart, bustling Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuardia, to start his campaign for the Republican nomination to run against Mayor Walker. Said he: "The situation is by no means hopeless. . . . The big task is to find candidates with fighting hearts...
...many an aviation expert, to Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. LaGuardia, Governor's Island long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
Last week Congressman LaGuardia, on vacation at Hot Springs, Ark., renewed his efforts to secure Governor's Island for a city air terminal by charging that resistance to the plan came primarily from Army officers stationed at Fort Jay who did not wish to be ousted from their comfortable nest. Said the Congressman...
Congressman LaGuardia differentiated between the proposed air terminal where planes would only land and leave with passengers and mail, and an airport where planes would be housed. New York has many an airport on its fringe, no air terminal in its centre...
...Besides its busy, responsible bees, the House has several gadflies-members who are constantly stirring up trouble, trying to force unpleasant issues. They have little or no influence in the House management and shine only on the floor where their quips get into the newspapers. Foremost of these is LaGuardia of New York, an irregular Republican, the smartest, most industrious gadfly. He knows parliamentary practice and can tie the House in knots with his motions and points of order. He rarely wins a fight but he always puts on a good show and his clever arguments attract considerable backing...