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...Mayor LaGuardia, echoing this gloomy prediction, wondered why youths should now be learning such trades as plumbing, drafting, electricity, and sheet-metal work in the city's Building Trades High School when "tens of thousands" of servicemen are being trained in them. "Why train more people for the next five years," he asked, " . . . if they can't find employment...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City's little Mayor, broadcast praise for his wife's "OPA pasta faggioli ... a perfect, well-balanced" noodles dish, cooked with "nice, brown kidney beans," escarole and onions. The starch-wary Mayor reported that pasta faggioli was so full of "the vitamins, the starches, and everything you need" that "when we have pasta . . . I have to go on a very strict diet for the next week...
...Rorello LaGuardia, Manhattan's hustling, bustling little Mayor, who in eleven years of office has proved a tar baby for nicknames ("Butch," "The Hat," "The Little Flower"), was tagged anew at the opening of an "Eat More Fish" campaign: "The Little Flounder...
...powerful authority had been whittled down to an international body (one vote to each nation) which would have only an advisory power on global air matters. There was also agreement on such technical matters as uniform landing signals, weather reports, etc. As New York's Mayor LaGuardia, a conference delegate, quipped: "Gentlemen, everybody is against bad weather...
...Here is something startling. I am going to knock on wood . . . because it is still in the experimental stage." New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, on his weekly broadcast, then announced that the city's Public Health Research Institute had succeeded in immunizing laboratory animals against certain kinds of malaria parasites, a feat many experts believed impossible...