Word: laguardias
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...candidate of the No Deal Party was patrician Newbold Morris, president of the City Council and protege of Mayor LaGuardia (who is a member of the American Labor Party). No Deal Candidate Morris said that he was actually a Willkie Republican. He is also a Yaleman, socialite and good-government career man, who told the voters that his rivals had reached eminence through sordid political deals. Yet his opponents accused him of making a deal with LaGuardia-perhaps for such a sordid purpose as taking votes from Judge Goldstein...
...News the visitor would read: "All three are good men, honest and capable. No matter which one is elected. New York City will be assured of a good mayor." Knowing his French politics, the visitor would soon understand that the News was principally interested in the fact that Butch LaGuardia, patently the best mayor New York has had in decades -but "too vigorous," would soon be gone...
...pounded a beat for ten years. Then He did such a good job on the "shoofly" squad, routing out grafters among his fellow cops, that he won promotions and made many a political enemy. Not until 1934 did his stubborn honesty pay off; then reforming Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made him the $1a,soo-a-year Commissioner of New York's 18,000-man police force. In his first six years in office, icy-eyed...
...police lineup, issued a famous order to the 200 detectives present: "He's the best-dressed man in this room. . . . Don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar." Under Valentine (and, of course, with the help of LaGuardia and Tom Dewey) the slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white-slavers, "popes and rabbis" (meddling politicians) were largely driven out or undercover. New Yorkers boasted, for the first time in memory, of the most honest police force in the land...
...E.W.T.). Salary: $25,000 a year. Said Mayor LaGuardia, an old dragonslayer on the radio himself: "Busting gangs on the microphone, Lew, is going to be real easy. . . . Give them the works...