Word: laguardias
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...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had gone into office expecting to be to patronage-ridden and empty-treasuried New York City what Franklin D. Roosevelt was to the Depression-ridden U. S., determined to make over the city government as the President was making over the Federal Government. When Mayor LaGuardia demanded a bill from the New-York Legislature giving him drastic powers, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman called him promptly to order. The Mayor went to Albany and an amicable settlement was reached. The Mayor agreed not to ask dictatorial powers for himself but to have the necessary authority for revamping...
...Mayor LaGuardia was anxious to do over New York City at once. But doing over implied doing New York City's established political machines out of many jobs, and out of much power. Tammany naturally opposed it, and Tammany-elected State Legislators stood against it, but they were not chiefly responsible for the LaGuardia-Lehman bill's defeat...
...Hurley-Wright building overlooking the Washington Monument. It is so small that it will not hold more than three people comfortably. It has no clock because Harry Hopkins does not want to know how late he works. Frequently he skips lunch altogether. Last week New York's Mayor LaGuardia and the New York State Relief Director called on him. Since they had no time for lunch either they shared a bottle of milk and some sandwiches which Mr. Hopkins' secretary had brought to the office for herself...
...passed the tax on to the public by raising the first-quarter-mile rate from 15? to 20?. The public had passed it on to the driver by cutting his tip 5?. A local court had called the tax unconstitutional but the city was appealing. Last week Mayor LaGuardia told the companies he would drop the city's appeal if the companies would pay back the $500,000 "unconstitutionally" collected to the drivers who earned it. When the companies offered their unionless drivers 40%, the men did the unprecedented thing of striking. Independent drivers, protesting that they...
...Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint. . . . A vicious circle of depravity that is almost beyond the ability of the imagination to grasp...