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...Fiorello LaGuardia used to run for Congress on the Republican ticket. He was originally elected mayor of New York City on a Fusion ticket, was re-elected with the additional aid of the American Labor Party, and in philosophy is strictly New Deal Democrat. Last week the mayor of New York City was touring the Midwest talking about the Farm Problem. Since this has nothing to do with running New York City, he was questioned in Chicago about Presidential ambitions for 1940. Said the fast-witted little Mayor...
Said New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "Take the patriotic approach. . . . The nation has an interest in every expectant mother because her child may be a boy. Even if it isn't, it at least is the potential mother of future boys...
Modern U. S. social workers play up environment, play down inheritance. But they still believe as strongly as Victorians in the therapeutic value of good reading. Last week New York's Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia issued an annotated list-of 277 books, grouped according to school grades, to be read in future by children whose misdeeds land them in the New York City Children's Court. Costing about $390, the full library contains 19 fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such...
...folklore of the times, could not provide. An organization called "Tammany" could help the poor by giving food-baskets, clothing, coal and jobs, when such help from an organization called "government" might have regimented the people, sapped their vigor, and paved the way for Socialism. But under Roosevelt and LaGuardia the government by providing relief from the City Hall made unnecessary the exhorbitant tax which New Yorkers paid when this service emanated from the Wigwam. Good government is now preferred to Tammany misrule because good government has ceased to mean merely a balanced budget wrapped up in sterile slogans about...
Moving into temporary two-room quarters on the 22nd floor of the Empire State Building, New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia discussed with Empire State's President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: "City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it." Tenant LaGuardia: "That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine...