Word: laguardias
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...free speech still exists in the U. S., that no U. S. official was taking part in the "trial." So Nazi Germany had to sit by while 20,000 anti-Nazis met in Madison Square Garden and heard Alfred E. Smith, Raymond Moley, Senator Tydings of Maryland, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
...Vincent Astor organized a Women's Committee, opened her exclusive home for business meetings, goes each day to check on returns at campaign headquarters. Radio appeals have been made by New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a longtime Philharmonic subscriber, by Mr. Flagler, Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, Geraldine Farrar, Deems Taylor, Norman H. Davis. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking from the White House five Sundays ago, said: "In helping to preserve the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra you will help preserve a sense of values, a spiritual outlook, a feeling for the good and the beautiful which...
...York's Mayor LaGuardia has lately popped in on many a city department for an early-morning surprise visit. The Health Department's laboratories, which he visited last week, were the first place he found everyone on time and hard at work. After that dynamic Mayor LaGuardia was inclined to make an exception to the city's age-limit rule, let Assistant Director Williams stay...
...started his investigation of New York City politics, an illuminating chapter on municipal government has been drawn from the great metropolis. At first the revelations were the usual stories of graft, bribery, and corruption, which were exceptional only for the scale upon which they were operated, but since Mayor LaGuardia's inauguration the investigations have assumed a more serious aspect. The first tales about Welfare Island Prison were not surprising and in part were almost amusing, but now that Paul Blanshard has focused his attention upon the City Home for the Aged, the daily investigation reports are weighted with testimony...
...large number of people from the Home register and vote illegally. Tammany is only incidentally sadistic; as over, the fundamental motive is the aggrandizement of the Hall, a chase which hesitates at no means to achieve its end. Its long reign of power has made Tammany careless, and Mayor LaGuardia's investigations are gradually developing a complete picture of its makeup and methods. The people of New York may tolerate graft and financial corruption as unavoidable evils, but, cynical as they may be, they cannot fail to be moved profoundly by maudlin sadism...