Word: laguardias
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...Washington for was to get money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote of the Conference was struck by Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia of New York City, loudest bloom in the mayoral bouquet...
Vindication for fun loving Freshmen comes from Mayor LaGuardia who in a recent interview with the CRIMSON advised, "I believe in a well balanced reading even including the funny sheets...
...acumen and parsimony. Instead of being paid a salary plus expenses he is allotted a lump sum with which he hires assistants and buys supplies, pocketing what is left. That a janitor is no personage to trifle with has twice been discovered by New York's fiery Mayor LaGuardia: once, when the janitors threatened to disrupt his program of free school concerts by demanding $15 fees for services; again, when one of them refused to let him move a voting booth into a school-house after hours...
...farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular heed to motor car horns, radios and cutouts, to motor truck clattering, to workmen, revelers and electioneers making loud talk after 11 p.m. Milkwagon horses, police horses were shod with rubber shoes...
...accomplishing that much Manhattan took the initiative of noise abatement for the entire country. This was something for Mayor LaGuardia to crow about. For raucous Times Square is less noisy than the noisiest areas of Chicago or Washington. On the other hand, Manhattan was only commencing what great foreign cities have already accomplished. After midnight no horn-blowing or other cacophony is permitted in Helsingfors, London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo...