Word: laguardias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This time hulking John Lewis was belaboring Bill Green for saying at the A. F. of L. convention in Denver that Mr. Lewis was motivated by "consuming" political ambition. Mr. Lewis admitted "some political ambitions." They were, he said: 1) the re-election of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, 2) to see Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, promoted next year from Lieutenant Governor to Governor of Pennsylvania. 3) to see New York State's American Labor party develop into "a major political party" and 4) to see the "C. I. 0. ticket...
...sseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named Isa Neuhaus. In the U. S. for one year, she has had 20-minute sittings with Bishop Manning, painted subtly all in mauve; Leslie Howard, all in green; Mayor LaGuardia...
...announced that some time this week LaGuardia and Dewey would be guests of honor at a luncheon of the Harvard Club. "Notifications," he said, "are now being sent out to all Harvard alumni living in New York City, and officials of the Harvard Club are making preparations for one of the largest turnouts in recent years...
...overwhelming majority of the Harvard alumni are already in favor of the LaGuardia-Dewey ticket, and following th meeting we expect to crystallize this sentiment into a strong Harvard backing for the entire Fusion ticket...
...York police force units who spent the rest of the day trying to keep order, led off the parade, followed by such distinguished Legionnaires as Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia, local Governor and Mayor. The day warmed. Spotters posted down the Avenue from the reviewing stand pulled manifest inebriates out of line before the notables could see them. Hours passed, 100 Army planes droned overhead, the crowds heard 493 bands, saw 800 floats, gasped at a Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair...