Word: laguardias
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...enjoined an A. F. of L. Milk Wagon Drivers' Union from picketing, because that activity violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The injunction could not be granted, ruled the court, because the controversy involved a labor dispute. The ruling was a clear-cut victory for the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which limits the granting of injunctions in labor disputes, paves the way for collective bargaining...
...exile, Tugwell first took a flyer in the sugar business. His next job was the chairmanship of Fiorello LaGuardia's New York City Planning Commission. In this job, he had time to reflect on two things: 1 ) the fact that his more discreet friend, Adolph A. Berle Jr., whose economics are even less laissez-fairist than his, nevertheless managed to be an eminently respectable Assistant Secretary of State; 2) the long-range problem of integrating municipal spending and taxing with Federal fiscal policy...
...marked by the voters." Van Wyck Brooks: "Although I am a Socialist I am voting for President Roosevelt this year because I do not feel that Norman Thomas is realistic regarding the present world crisis." Norman Thomas: "It's a phony campaign. . . ." General Hugh S. Johnson: "Mayor LaGuardia says that if he [Wendell Willkie] is a businessman, Fiorello is an eagle...
Secretary of War Henry Stimson was expected to resign about Jan. 1. For the vacancy New Dealers wishfully promoted Robert P. Patterson, now Assistant Secretary. But best indications were that Patterson would go with Stimson. New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was still a strong possibility...
...screwiest publicity campaigns in advertising history. It founded the National Dunking Association, claims for it more than three million members (including Congressman Jennings Randolph, Mrs. Martin Johnson, Martha Graham); holds dunking contests, gets dunking testimonials from unlikely bigwigs like Novelist Pearl Buck. Said she: "If Mayor LaGuardia and Hitler only would get together and dunk a couple of doughnuts, they would see life through the same rose-colored glasses." Standing on his head atop Manhattan's Chanin Building, Flagpole Sitter Shipwreck Kelly ate 13 doughnuts one Friday the 13th...