Word: laguardias
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...their boss, defiantly puffing cigar smoke at the stars, was unmoved by beauty. Sick of his job as UNRRA head, Fiorello H. LaGuardia sent up a tenor shout that carried over the quiet water: "I'd like to cause a fight so that they'd throw me out right...
...LaGuardia was not to blame for UNRRA's end; that had been scheduled months ago. Nor was he responsible for the lack of planning by other agencies. Last week, in fact, he made a moving plea on behalf of those who live in the "roofless house...
...really made the pots boil was not acting like a candidate at all. He was Fiorello LaGuardia and he was fuming over a foaming glass of beer in Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week dumpy Butch LaGuardia, who has been wont to characterize New York City's leading Democrats as "those political bums," bobbed up in the middle of a meaty Democratic stew. No Democrat at all (he is a member of the American Labor Party), he was suddenly a darling of the Democratic bigwigs and a leading contender for their U.S. Senate nomination...
Wanted: A Vote Getter. Until The Hat plunked into their ring, most Democrats had assumed that quiet, ailing former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who was LaGuardia's predecessor as head of UNRRA, would be their Senate candidate. Now many who liked Lehman looked at the hard facts of political life and reconsidered...
...Butch LaGuardia probably could not be put over without a slam-bang fight. It was not likely that big Jim Farley and other conservatives would accept LaGuardia without some heavy shooting. Farley makes no bones about how much he dislikes New Dealish Jim Mead. In 1942 he had said Mead would "make a terrible Governor...