Word: laguardias
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...airtight case of political spitework by the New Deal against last year's Republican nominee for Governor. Mr. Moses refused to resign either of his jobs. Instead he revealed that as early as last February, and twice since, Secretary Ickes had asked New York's Mayor LaGuardia to remove him from the Bridge Authority as unfriendly to the New Deal. Put on the defensive, Secretary Ickes barked: "When I issue an order I don't look to see whom it may affect." He explained his order as simply a move to "properly disassociate" Federal and local governments...
When jumping-jackish little Mayor LaGuardia popped a scheme to put New York City into the power business last month, there were three loud repercussions. President Roosevelt invested a local rate wrangle with national significance by egging the Mayor on with promises of PWA cash. Consolidated Gas Co. promptly halved its dividend to $1. And Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated evidenced a pronounced change of heart toward the city and its citizens...
Today Major Covell is stationed in the Canal Zone but his plan has suddenly become a Wall Street byword. Having announced his admiration for the Washington Plan, Mr. Carlisle last week mailed an open letter to Mayor LaGuardia offering to arbitrate the disputed New York City power contracts as a necessary preliminary to a meeting of minds on rates, valuations and required legislation...
Birthdays, Harvard University's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 78; Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, 75; William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75; Hearstman Arthur Brisbane, 70; New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, 52; Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York...
...fill their need. As the chambermaid happens to be impersonated by that sultry siren, Dorothy Hall, their task is not as difficult as it sounds. By the time the curtain falls, Messrs. Dunning and Schrank have ruthlessly kidded every metropolitan institution from the Brooklyn Eagle to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...