Word: laguardias
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...doing on its food commitments abroad? This week UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia, who does not believe in nonsense, told the unvarnished facts. The record added up to the worst failure...
...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
...days, Comrade Earl Browder slipped stealthily out of the country under an assumed name, toting a phony passport. But Passenger Browder's papers were all quite correct last week as he impatiently awaited the departure of a Stockholm-bound airliner from New York's LaGuardia Field...
...alarm, the President sent his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, abroad to dramatize the crisis. To prod the public and pressure the farmer, he appointed the Famine Emergency Committee, put crack Administrator Chester Davis at its head. Fiorello LaGuardia bounded onto the scene as director general of UNRRA, to succeed the tired and ailing Lehman. Cried LaGuardia, as he prodded the snail-paced Combined Food Board: "I am going to get wheat, or I am going to tell the world why not! . . . I am not going around like Evangeline Booth with a tambourine in my hand...
...nation's good will abroad depends largely on the sustained quality of its exports. To New York's LaGuardia Field last week came a handsomely packaged postwar product from Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Academy, the production line that turned out Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Signe Hasso. To expert eyes it gave no indication that the quality of Swedish exports was declining...