Word: laguardias
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...York, Nov. 27--Over-riding bitter opposition from merchants, bankers and utility companies, the Board of Aldermen this evening passed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's $61,000,000 relief tax program...
...hand to clear the ground and pull the stumps of controversy were such eminent gentlemen as William Green of the American Federation of Labor, Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers, Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, Harold W. Story of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., not to mention a small army of professors, physicians, health officials and social workers. Some of the conferees were so excited by the prospect of the broad field before them that they wanted to gallop right out and start plowing before the President had determined the distance or direction of the furrows. One such...
...York's Mayor & Mrs. Fiorello Henry LaGuardia formally adopted two children: brunette Jean, 6, niece of the Mayor's first wife, and blond Eric, 4, an orphan...
...prayed and pondered. Before them was a question involving what is most dear and holy to pious Jews-kosher food. Long have the rabbis charged that in New York City's poultry markets much trefah (unclean) fowl is foisted upon Jews as kosher. A mediator appointed by Mayor LaGuardia recommended that plombes (lead seals) be attached to kosher fowl as they are to kosher meats; that a tax of iff per fowl be levied to defray costs of vigilant inspection. The city poulterers rejected the plan, called the rabbis ''bearded racketeers...
...Will Durant for a "West Point for Public Servants" and by Robert W. Kelso '04 in "A College of Public Welfare" (an article appearing in tomorrow's Harvard Alumni Bulletin), the Institution marks an attempt to "catch them young" and train an efficient American civil service. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was forced to call experts to New York from all over the United States to aid in Gotham's administrative reorganization, has already requested the Institution to set up a "laboratory training" school to provide better municipal employees...