Word: laguardias
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...York's Mayor LaGuardia, in his capacity as President of the United States Conference of Mayors, recently refused to accept an invitation to a congress of the International Union of Local Authorities to be held next month at Berlin. He declined on the ground that "it would be a paradox to hold a conference on municipal government in a nation where local self-government has been obliterated." Mayor LaGuardia's refusal smacks more of a consistently biased opinion than any reasoned judgment...
...York, the day's biggest crowd, 56,000, which included Mayor LaGuardia, onetime Mayor "Jimmy" Walker and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, saw the New York Giants overpower their bitterest rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers...
Here was a test of strength, a sign of returning vigour in the American masses, so the reactionaries, quick to quench spiritual fires wherever beginning to blaze, set to work. Mayor LaGuardia, already having flown his true colors as a traitor to the masses in the purge of Marcantonio, issued a few proclamations regarding Public Health, and tried to arrange parleys for peace, where naturally intelligence has an unfair advantage. All to delude the elevator boys to return to their Hell of button-pushing and servility...
...Mayor LaGuardia or Mister Teagle...
...other speakers, New York's Governor Lehman and New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, New Dealers both, piled quotation on quotation, leaving no doubt whatever that Roosevelt I, like a Christian before Christ, had blessed the New Deal 20 years before its birth. Listening in silence on the platform and in reserved seats below, sat a phalanx of Roosevelt I's descendants, good Republicans all. including Alice Longworth. But the only rebuke offered by the children of Roosevelt I to Roosevelt II was made by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who, in the course of personal anecdotes, smilingly remarked...