Word: laguardias
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...done much to promote public conservation and aid.* Last week former President Herbert Hoover, who had done as much as any man to spur the U.S. conscience into action, made his final famine relief report in Ottawa (see CANADA). Not mentioned in the official reports was fiery, little Fiorella LaGuardia, head of UNRRA, who had cut through much Government red tape and indecision...
They listened approvingly to experts on everything. Indefatigable Harold Stassen* was there to talk about world cooperation. Fiery Fiorello LaGuardia made a moving plea for UNRRA. Physicist Harold C. Urey and Major General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of atomic energy, explained nuclear fission...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, who walks less delicately than Agag, was dropped by his sore-shinned radio sponsor. Five months after Liberty handed him "the freedom of the air," the magazine called it quits. The loud Little Flower was "at variance with our policies," as Publisher Paul Hunter put it. Reported LaGuardia: "Mr. Hunter ... told me . . . the advertisers didn't like my Sunday night radio program. They were pressing him hard. I have lost Liberty," he cried, "but I retain my soul...
...suggestions. Herbert Hoover wanted a temporary U.N. Food Administration to coordinate the world effort after Sept. 1, but "only during the period of food scarcity and agricultural reconstruction from the war." "The world," he said, "must quit charity as a basis for widespread food distribution" after Sept. 1. Fiorello LaGuardia snapped: "It is impossible to take a stop watch and say at a given hour on a given day, 'We are not going to give you any more food...
...Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Ambassador to the U.S., was ready with a brass band for the first Royal Dutch Air Lines plane to land at LaGuardia Field. The ship landed, blew two tires, rolled to a stop one mile from the reception committee, two hours later got to the terminal. The reception...