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This week, as swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sat down in conference with strikers, besieged dealers and handlers, New York City's milk supply was halved. Home and hospital deliveries continued, but bakeries and restaurants received only a trickle...
...York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia jammed his hat on his stubby stubborn head, and flew west. At Chicago last week he descended to do a little troubleshooting. At lunch in the Hotel Sherman he sat down with 700 advertising men. At his left he had Mayor Kelly, who had a World's Fair at home five years ago; at his right he had Charles G. Dawes, whose brother Rufus successfully financed Chicago's Fair. Little Fiorello's job was to convince them all that New York's is a lot better. Said...
...financial history of the biggest world's fair ever. Set up like most world's fairs as a supposedly self-supporting promotion enterprise, like most, it is far from breaking even. Beyond the halfway mark (August 9), the Fair's figures revealed the reason for Mayor LaGuardia's Chicago plea. They showed in round numbers...
...Tammany Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to appoint his friend Harold M. Kennedy U. S. Attorney for New York City's Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
Natty, wisecracking little James John ("Jimmie") Walker, 58, who as playboy mayor of New York City overlooked few bets, visited Mayor LaGuardia's breezy summer headquarters overlooking the World's Fairgrounds, grinned: "Well, well . . . . It's one bet I overlooked...