Word: laguardia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elderly, white-haired gent with published writings. But the real Procaccino is an everyday guy, at his best kidding with the fellows and at his worst slinging mud. His have been by far the funniest lines of the campaign-and not, as his detractors charge, malapropisms. When Mrs. Fiorello LaGuardia endorsed Lindsay, Mario came up with the observation that "There is no real conflict here: Mayor LaGuardia chose me as a public servant, he chose Marie as his wife." Procaccino also coined the only durable catch-phrase of the campaign, describing the Lindsay set as "limousine liberals...
...students' resentment over the court orders parallels that felt in the early 1900s by labor leaders, who were repeatedly stymied by management's use of the injunction to halt strikes. In 1932, Congress finally came to labor's aid with the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prohibited federal courts from issuing an injunction to stop peaceful, nondisruptive strikes...
...York's LaGuardia...
...attorney challenged the marijuana laws this May in Suffolk Superior Court on the grounds that pot is neither harmful nor addictive. He seems to have a good case. Dr. Norman Zinberg of Harvard cites in a recent article in The Public Interest several reports--Allentuck and Bowman, Murphy, and LaGuardia--which contend that pot is harmless...
...Bronx primaries will therefore be a very decisive mile-stone in Lindsay's career. If the Lindsay-oriented candidates succeed, the mayor will have proved that he can build a Republican party almost from scratch, fundamentally altering the political structure of the City. Lindsay will have succeded where LaGuardia failed, by breaking the Democrats' long and onchallenged hold on New York...