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...Manhattan, spurred to clean-up pitch by Mayor LaGuardia's zealous reform administration, police corralled scores of petty gamblers, slot machine & punchboard operators. Last week at Louis Gitlan's candy store, zealous Policeman Isadore Newman dropped 25 pennies in a game of bagatelle (shooting marbles from a plunger into numbered holes on a sloping board). On his 25th try, he won 5? worth of candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia began his official morning one day last week by whizzing down to his office in a police radio car in 17 minutes, just to see how well his police could respond to an emergency call.* He began his next morning by jogging up to Albany on a train to see how well he himself could settle another more serious emergency. The balancing of the city budget moved him to say, before leaving: "The humble Mayor of New York, a city of 7,000,000, is crawling up hat in hand...
...front of the Mayor's own program, the Governor assumed at least half of the responsibility for the city's rehabilitation -a program that is currently the most important in State politics. It was therefore quite as essential for him to reach a compromise as for Mayor LaGuardia. And having reached it, it was even more essential that he get the measure passed. This was no easy job. The Upper House has a Democratic majority of one, but they are mostly Tammanymen who waged a bitter fight against Lehman (& Roosevelt) two years ago. The Lower House is Republican...
York City's Board of Education named Harold George Campbell, Deputy Superintendent since 1930. Though reputedly favoring another man for the job, Mayor LaGuardia was chiefly interested in getting a superintendent who would help him push through a plan for reforming the city's schools. When he heard of the Board's selection of Harold George Campbell the Mayor cocked his jaw, remarked grimly: "I hope he'll cooperate. ... He should cooperate. . . . He will have to co-operate." Said Superintendent-designate Campbell: "It goes without saying. . . ." A past master of co-operation must be a Scotch...
...balance our budget with an essay. . . . Your charge comes as a hollow mockery to the overburdened taxpayers ... of the City who, for more than a decade, have suffered as cruel and vicious dictatorship as has ever existed in an American community. . . ." Just as crisply Governor Lehman retorted that Mayor LaGuardia "missed the point" of his opposition to dictatorship. He stood pat, but proposed a meeting in Manhattan this week to hear any "better method" the Mayor might suggest...