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...Seminole Indians in Miami made Fiorello Henry LaGuardia an honorary member of their tribe, christened him Chief Tiger Killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...been under the late great Joseph Pulitzer: New York's great, crusading, liberal newspaper. Last week there was cause for jubilation in Publisher Howard's orientally splendiferous sanctum. The paper's first great crusade, the New York mayoralty election, had been an unqualified success. Fusionist LaGuardia had been swept into office by a huge majority (see p. 16). Tammany's control of the municipal government had been smashed for the first time since the World helped John Purroy Mitchel smash it 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Howard's Feather | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Scripps-Howard's high command was scarcely to be blamed for regarding Fusion's victory as their own. Certainly the World-Telegram had done more to help LaGuardia than any other New York paper. Its interest in the election had started when Publisher Howard inaugurated the "Write In McKee" campaign that brought the onetime President of the Board of Aldermen 264,000 votes in last year's by-election after Tammany's Mayor Jimmy Walker was hounded into exile. That campaign ripened the acquaintance between Mr. Howard and Mr. McKee into friendship. Last summer Publisher Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Howard's Feather | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...World-Telegram's campaign to elect LaGuardia started in earnest the day he got the nomination. Every possible bit of political color and prejudice was thrown into the news reports. Everything except the municipal election promptly subsided on the editorial page. The thundering oratory of Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's daily drawings had only one subject during the last four weeks of the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Howard's Feather | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...precedent of long standing was rudely overturned when Mr. Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor-elect of New York, announced to newspaper men that henceforth local banquets must carry on without the mayoral presence. There will, it seems, be no more of the screaming police escorts, secret exits, and hasty fitting from table to table which has characterized other administrations. The mayor has work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GASTROMANCY | 11/14/1933 | See Source »

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