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Optimistic about the chances of a college graduate in public life, New York's Mayor LaGuardia declared that "experience should be coupled with education in preparation for working up in the civil service." He decried the "political impractibility" of practicing what is preached about the merit but emphasized the necessity for the system...
...LaGuardia to Speak...
Speakers at the meeting include Mayor LaGuardia and Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West. According to the telegram sent by the League to President Conant, the sponsors are working "to develop constructive interest in public service...
...Tammany and tried to look comfortable in a top hat, but the Scabury investigations, the Walker abdication, and the forthright disavowal of their cause by Mr. Roosevelt as Governor had discredited his case. Mr. McKee, an independent Democrat, made up a strong personal ticket and clinched second place, while LaGuardia won the berth in City Hall by a small plurality, but not by a majority decision. It seems perfectly plain, then, that, despite his gain in popularity during his term, for the Republicans to throw their hundred thousand odd votes to another candidate might spell the Mayor's defeat...
...capitalists and the ultiities and his active work in the Roosevelt cause are enough to turn the long-suffering Republican's affections to other directions, if the G.O.P. partisans deny him their support this year they will be cutting off their noses to spite their face. For Mayor LaGuardia has given the city its first taste of honest government since the days of Mayor Mitchell before the War. And any cessation of support for the Fusion nominee by the Republicans would mean a return to the rule of the sachems of Seventeenth Street, a disaster for the type of city...