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...England he sent a research chemist, Harvard's bespectacled young president, James Bryant Conant, as head of a mission to gather scientific data on England's machinery of war. Back from England came trusted Harry Hopkins. At LaGuardia Field, he told reporters: "I don't think Hitler can lick these people. I think he's up against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt...
...wife. Still the popular idol of many a New York City voter, Jimmy half-heartedly practiced law while his wife ran a flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
...striped paw of Tammany, which ordinarily shuns inquiries as the devil shuns holy water, has guided a committee of Manhattan's City Council in an investigation of the local Civil Service. Designed to make Fiorello LaGuardia look bad in case he runs for mayor again, the investigation has prowled leisurely along, centring its initial snooping on the affairs of the city-owned station WNYC. Last week the probers unearthed one Alexander Leftwich Jr., who claimed he had been fired as assistant in WNYC's dramatic department for refusing to produce a show that was "red as hell." Replied...
Last week while the City Council's investigation weaseled along, Novik was busy with WNYC's second annual ten-day musical festival, which includes music by everyone from Metropolitan soloists to Tommy Dorsey and his band, all serving gratis. He and Mayor LaGuardia thought that one up last year to make everybody feel better in bad times...
Last week New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia emitted an angry Donald Duck squawk. Subject: U. S. draft boards. "The trouble with the administration of the draft in New York City," quacked the Little Flower, "isn't in Washington. It's in the laundry. I think someone is using too much starch in the shirts of the administration...