Word: laguardias
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...selected for their divisional insignia a starry arm-patch supposed to represent the constellation Orion. Back home General O'Ryan returned to the law, took up commercial aviation, was boosted last year for Fusion Mayor of New York. As a reward for withdrawing his candidacy. Fusion Mayor LaGuardia made him the Biggest City's biggest policeman...
...drain off dividends. . . . We believe our plan will help speed recovery. More goods will pass over counters, more mills will be busy and more jobs will be the result. . . ." NRAdministrator Johnson had approved the plan, said Mr. Levin, and so had Alfred E. Smith and New York's Mayor LaGuardia...
...cooties off my coat sleeves." In the next few weeks Brother Herman will inspect more public baths and swimming pools in Manhattan, draw up a report on them tor Brother Bernard. When he returns from taking his cure at Vichy, Brother Bernard in turn will report to Mayor LaGuardia on the need for more baths. Brother Herman explained: "I've been interested in public baths for many years because my father, Dr. Simon Baruch, established the first one in Manhattan, and Bernard is equally interested. . . . Much of the trouble with these public baths, I fear, is due to the kind...
...read lips, and none could do so from a distance. In packed, tomb-still conference rooms delegates addressed each other with their hands, arms, heads.* Messages of greeting from President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman were spoken for the audience (hearers), wigwagged for the "optience" (seers). Senator Copeland and Mayor LaGuardia had the novel experience of addressing a crowd which neither heard nor heeded them but kept its eyes glued on a man who gave a running interpretation in manual alphabet-sign language...
...Francisco the country had a wolf indeed. Into Mayor Rossi's office hurried five other Bay city mayors. Sixty thousand of their 1,200,000 citizens had laid down their tools, left their jobs. Like New York's Mayor LaGuardia, conscientious Mayor Rossi is of Italian parentage. Born in Volcano, Calif, in 1878, he got his start in life ten years later by delivering flowers in San Francisco, rose to be president of big Pelicano Rossi Floral Co. He got his start in politics in 1914 when the late "Sunny Jim" Rolph, then Mayor of San Francisco, appointed...