Word: laguardias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yorkers paid 25? each this week to see one solid mile of native art in the Forum of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. The occasion was Manhattan's first municipal art show, sponsored by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The artists selected their own exhibits, many of which were old to private gallery visitors. Prices were not openly quoted but sales people rustled lists running from $10 to a reported $25,000 for such pieces as Nakian's Babe Ruth, Zorach's Mother & Child...
...multicolored galleries were decently spaced 1,250 exhibits by some 450 artists whose styles ranged from the clatter of a Biberman to the dignified craft of a Watrous. Included were such familiar U. S. names as Sterne, Burchfield, Speicher, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Jo Davidson (who did a special LaGuardia bust) Benianimo Bufano, Mahonri Young...
Married. Clendenin John Ryan Jr., 27, grandson of the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan (see below), secretary to New York's Mayor LaGuardia; and Austrian Countess Marie-Anne-Paula-Ferdinandine Wurmbrand-Stuppach, 20; in Manhattan...
...seize the city's Democratic machine from Tammany's slipping grasp. Once in a generation a revulsion of feeling elects a Fusion-Reform Administration, but between times, year after year, the local Democratic machine rules the city. To the ambitions of Bosses Farley and Flynn Mayor LaGuardia's plan for revamping the city government was as great a danger as it was to Tammany. So the votes of their henchmen killed the bill for city reform...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia visited the new $8,000,000 Bronx County Court House, exclaimed: "Why, it reminded me of the palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come...