Word: laguardias
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When bee-busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week boom-buzzed into office (by a slim plurality of 133,841) as New York City's first third-term mayor, a crack in the Democratic Party widened to a crevasse...
Running on the Republican ticket, LaGuardia had been endorsed by the head of the Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt, opposed by Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn and James A. Farley, Flynn's predecessor and President Roosevelt's onetime Man Friday...
...Triumphant Third-Termite LaGuardia recommended that New York's next municipal election be waged along non-partisan lines...
Punchinello LaGuardia led with his chin again last week, this time got it punched by various assorted clergymen. As the country's Civilian Defense Director, New York City's Mayor asked all pastors, priests and rabbis to preach on religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...
Totalitarianism is already here. . . . Hitler and Goebbels never went further." Editor Morrison well knew this last statement was not true. The same day the LaGuardia request became public, word leaked out of Germany that the Gestapo had jailed the dean of Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral for "offering prayers for Jews." By way of contrast, the Mayor pointed out that nobody had to use his sermon, and sundry clergymen rallied to his support...