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...Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions convinced themselves that a merger might help. Last week in Manhattan, a joint meeting of the long-haired, politically wet-eared left heard some of the facts of political life from an independent who had made a go of it - Fiorello LaGuardia. Said Butch...
Bell was in Omaha examining the Nebraska senatorial race when Chicago telephoned to pick up UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia in Fargo, N.Dak., before noon the next day. After badgering two airlines into getting him there, sleepless, by 5:30 a.m., he was on hand to meet LaGuardia at the airport, rescue his hat from the prairie wind, and go with him to Climax, Minn. Bell managed to catch a few hours' sleep in the sample room of a local hotel...
When a photographer tried to get LaGuardia to pose in a truckload of wheat, he refused, saying: "It'll hurt the wheat." "Won't it?" he asked, turning to Bell. "No," said Bell, "farmers often pack it that way." "How do you know?" LaGuardia demanded. Said Bell: "I'm from Kansas." "Well," LaGuardia decided. "I won't stand in it. It'll look silly." So he didn't stand...
...history of the labor injunction prior to 1932 is a sordid one," he read that Tuesday morning, in the weary tones of a tired preacher who knows his text by heart. The Norris-LaGuardia Act, he said, barred such injunctions as the court had issued; and-looking straight at the judge -the act was written "in plain language which any intelligent citizen can understand...
...Norris-LaGuardia act, Sonnett recalled what onetime Congressman and labor expert Fiorello LaGuardia had said during the 1932 debate: "I do not see," LaGuardia said then, "how in any possible way the United States can be brought in under the provisions...