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Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City...
When the city bought the subway lines, a year ago, it inherited union-shop contracts which C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union had made with their old private employers. Mayor LaGuardia hedged, declared that some of the provisions (union shop, seniority) were not admissible now that workers were under Civil Service. He accepted the contracts conditionally, decided not to force an issue until the contracts expired on June...
...This May, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia became: 1. OPM Priorities Chief. 2. Secretary...
Jesse Jones got tired of electric shocks in his office, put rubber bonnets on all his doorknobs. >> An airport cab starter threatened to knock Fiorello H. LaGuardia's block off when the New York Mayor parked his car across the taxi line. Fiorello offered to lick any three taxi drivers, was led off gesticulating by airline officials. >> General John J. Pershing, 80, lay ill of age's infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came...
...Higher courts upheld Justice McGeehan's decision not on its merits but on technicalities. One obstacle: New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia blocked the Board of Higher Education by refusing to let the city's counsel appeal the case...