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...surprise was Franklin Roosevelt's nomination by the Democrats by a whopping majority of no votes. Runner-up: Robert Jackson, 31. For Vice President: Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy. The Republicans chose Senator Arthur Vandenberg for President over Dewey (85-to-46). The "Liberal-Independents": Fiorello LaGuardia...
Discouraged a bit, Vag cut the next lecture and went to listen to LaGuardia, but he came back to Emerson D last Thursday. It was the worst experience of all. The only seat he could find was one on the stage right beside Brown. Vag, who is no Elizabethan, felt as though all the eyes in the audience were on him. Poor even at after-dinner speaking, he was so embarrassed that he didn't hear a word about Eugene O'Neill...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. The 103rd Mayor of New York City (second tough est political job in the U. S.) is the greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran...
...Going into government does not mean going into politics. If you go into government, for God's sake be unorthodox. I don't think I would have lasted five minutes in any party," Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City, told 350 Seniors in Eliot House last night...
From Eliot House LaGuardia moved to the Indoor Athletic Building to address an audience of 600 at an open meeting...