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Last week New York City's hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia was belaboring the Nazis of Germany with his customary vigor-and so, less loudly and more indirectly, was handsome Anthony Eden, who had just arrived in the U. S. from England (see p. 9). Few days later another blast at Nazi and Fascist ideology came from a quarter which has hitherto been relatively silent-U. S. science...
...Kenneth Simpson, the one Republican leader who, all the time that Uncle Bim was really believed to be washed up, was actually making headway in Manhattan. To him was due large credit for the final smashing to Tammany last year with the Fusion ticket, led by explosive, progressive Fiorello LaGuardia. It was Kenneth Simpson who groomed the advertising profession's gift to politics, Representative Bruce Barton. And Simpson it was who had so very nearly overturned the strong, widely respected regime of Governor Herbert Lehman with the G. O. P.'s most dazzling rookie of the decade, District...
...schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From his PWA the city has received $60,000,000 for a new sewer system, $8,000,000 (last week) for housing and $18,000,000 for that...
...passed his New York bar examination, was overwhelmed by congratulations from his friends. Then he was notified that it had all been a mistake- he had failed. Ashamed, he hid the fact, rapidly became a successful criminal lawyer. Recently he asked New York City's Mayor LaGuardia for appointment as a magistrate. Last week, after an investigation, he was indicted...
...When Tugwell left his $10,000-a-year job as Under Secretary of Agriculture in 1937, his good friend, Charles Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., offered him a job as executive vice president. He accepted, admitted he knew little about the business. When his good friend Mayor LaGuardia next year offered him the planning job, which suited his tastes and paid $15,000, he accepted with alacrity...