Word: laguardias
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...Roosevelt brought up her plan in the Ladies' Home Journal. It did not evoke overwhelming enthusiasm. In fact, most comment suggested that it scared the daylights out of U.S. men. Last week, after registering as a defense volunteer, Mrs. Roosevelt went to Manhattan, there, at Mayor LaGuardia's request, examined prospective uniforms for volunteers (see cut), confessed "to a little confusion in thinking about uniforms before being entirely certain what work is to be done in them." In short, although no one in the Government, from the President down, supported her in it, she was still...
...Field also thinks highly of Ingersoll. Columnists Pearson & Allen broadcast last week that Field had turned down LaGuardia's offer of No. 1 assistant on Civilian Defense if he would give...
Even the Manhattan newspapers admitted that Mayor LaGuardia had never been in better form. There were 675,000 people in Central Park (some estimates were 750,000) in a patriotic rally to celebrate "I Am An American Day" and the Mayor, facing the biggest crowd in Manhattan's history, let himself go. He led the bands, introduced the speakers, exchanged ancient jokes with Eddie Cantor, and wound up with a message to dictators : "I tell them not to depend on the fifth column in this country because there is only one column here. That is the American column...
...next day the Mayor hurried to Washington for a conference with the President. For weeks Fiorello LaGuardia has been turning down appeals to head the civilian defense organization of the U.S. He has been holding out for a job with Cabinet status. Last week, the day after Manhattan's sensational rally, he gave in. But when asked if he would keep on being Mayor he ducked by saying that it was up to the voters. Already co-chairman of the joint Canadian-U.S. defense board, he will divide his time between New York City and Washington...
Official reason for the move was reported to Lake Genevans by Scribner's Commentator Editor George Teeple Egleston, sleek ex-editor of the old Life. Manhattan, said he, produced editorial frustration largely because of "Mayor LaGuardia's yells that the German bombers are coming...