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...President Roosevelt took his guests, including Mayor LaGuardia of New York City and Representative Caroline O'Day of New York, to see how his "dream house" is coming along. The fieldstone walls were all up, the roof was going on. Secret Service men looked skeptical when the President declared that in his new hideaway there would be no telephone, no radio, no guards except an electric eye to fire a gun if any intruder came too close...
...opposite school holds that cities are foolish to pass up the opportunity to make permanent improvements when money is cheap, and especially when Harold Ickes' PWA will give 'outright 45% of the money. Leading middle-of-the-roader is New York City's little Fiorello H. LaGuardia. who is financing Relief expenditures through an emergency sales tax, lately turned down a proffered PWA $2,700,000. explaining that he found it cheaper to finance necessary improvements privately. Last week Dun & Bradstreet's Frederick Bird gave municipal financiers a warning, a yardstick...
...Federal Building, he said with a twinkle in his eye: "The master mason certifies that the cornerstone is well and truly laid and in return I have assured him that I hold a union card.''* There, accompanied by his dumpty little Fusion Republican friend, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, he also had the experience of being introduced to 20,000 delegates of the National Education Association (see p. 28) by a lady no less well known than himself: his wife. All three of them enjoyed the occasion mightily...
...determine the workers' preference. A. F. of L. refused to participate, picketed the stores, demanded that Judge Dickinson dismiss the company's petition for a restraining order. Instead, Judge Dickinson found that the Wagner Act permitted him to do, in NLRB's interest, what the Norris-LaGuardia Act forbade: order the pickets to disperse...
...first National Exhibition of American Art, held two years ago, and sponsored by Mayor LaGuardia's New York Municipal Art Committee, flopped flat. Almost its only distinction was that it brought to Manhattan more canvases than any show that season. When the second opened last year with 526 pictures and statues, critics were agreeably surprised, found the general level of painting higher, a few pieces outstanding, their subjects of coast-to-coast diversity. Last week, in the spacious galleries of the Fine Arts Society, the third National Exhibition turned out to be the best...