Word: laguardias
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After a few deep breaths U.N. attaches did a little checking, discovered that stocky, 46-year-old Jimmy O'Neill not only meant what he said, but was capable of carrying out his offer. His Lincoln Warehouse Corp. had moved furniture for ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, many another famous New Yorker. It had carried out huge moving jobs for Tiffany's, General Electric, Radio Corporation of America. Happily, U.N. accepted...
...Fiorello LaGuardia and his clothes stood out in Paris: at a full-blown gala at the Opera he was the only man wearing a business suit. In Geneva, begloved and Homburg-hatted city fathers who greeted him at the airport found him in the shade of a cowboy hat. But playing chess with Tito in Yugoslavia he was the picture of conservative correctness-though, sitting there in long, profound silence, he was not the picture of LaGuardia...
...what would happen when UNRRA, which now supplies 50% of Italy's food, goes out of business at the end of this year? De Gasperi asked LaGuardia to help him get a half billion dollar U.S. loan. The Little Flower's answer was typical: "I haven't got the money...
...fold. A civil servant with a wife and three children, and earning an average 9,000 lire a month, now has to pay 3,000 lire for two pairs of flimsy shoes, or one gallon of olive oil, or 30 Ibs. of flour. In answer to LaGuardia, De Gasperi said that strikes and riots had forced him to give the people more bread...
...recalled LaGuardia's warning on food: "We cannot promise what we cannot give," and turned toward the Communist benches: "You are pledged against inflation. Should it come, you will have to accept . . . more than a share of the responsibility...