Word: laguardias
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Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Relentlessly backing any rival to Newark as long as it was situated in New York State he battled valiantly to have Brooklyn's remote Floyd Bennett Field made the city's official air terminal, even sponsored in 1933 a scheme for a metropolitan airport on Governor's Island, which would have nestled under the city's towering skyline and been suicidal to passengers and pilots. A year later he leased the land for what was to become a more practical project: to enlarge North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay, Queens...
...business figures as Henry Morgan, Harry P. Davison, Roland Harriman and Rudolph Loening. Other fields-Flushing, Edo, Holmes at Jackson Heights and Jamaica-are important only to manufacturers of aircraft, students, amateurs and taxi services. Newark still dominates metropolitan air facilities, will continue to do so until ousted by LaGuardia's North Beach scheme...
...coming year was Oklahoma's Scott P. Squyres, a jovial World War veteran professing Indian descent. On the speakers' list with headline peace material were such names as New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee. Getting in his political oar, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg declared. "It is none of our business, as neutrals, what the effect of our neutrality will be upon anybody but ourselves...
...Manhattan, Mayor LaGuardia, father by adoption of a young daughter, burst into a fine Italian rage, summoned his commissioners of police and correction and ordered one to set up a Sex Bureau like Chicago's, the other to do everything possible to keep all sex offenders locked up until their cases could receive a thorough psychological investigation. Roared the impetuous little mayor: "There are many legal loopholes through which these offenders can now escape full punishment for their crimes. But, God help the judge who turns one of these men loose if anything happens afterward...
Meanwhile, impeccably dressed Grover Whalen returned to his comfortable duties as head of New York's 1939 World's Fair. Candidate Mahoney declared: "I am no man's man." Candidate Copeland sniffed: ''These shufflings do not concern me." Candidate LaGuardia, already Fusion's and American Labor Party's choice and still waiting for a friendly nod from the Republicans, said nothing...