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...York City's famed Park Commissioner Robert Moses does not like criticism. Like his boss, Fiorello LaGuardia, he has been long in office, is conscious that he has served the public well, is self-righteous, cantankerous, and never admits that he is mistaken. Like other cantankerously honest men, he enjoys being rude...
Last week the Metropolitan was once more abustle with a feverish combination of moving day and picture hanging. Next month art lovers will again be able to see all of the Metropolitan's great art. With unusual moderation Mayor LaGuardia himself had said it: "I won't say [Hitler] is not coming over, but I'm sure he can't come with enough to aim at the pictures and hit the mark...
...days later MARCH OF TIME, which had obtained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's verbal permission to film the gates of one of New York City's Jewish cemeteries for the same film, got a telephone call from the police captain of the cemetery precinct. He said no pictures could be taken. M.O.T. took the pictures anyway, and police took the names of the camera crew...
...print with as many "explanations" as if they had lost. Election Day was wet, snowy, and nasty; balloting was only one-fourth of normal. They alibied on & on: loyal Negro Democrats weren't interested; Franklin Roosevelt himself was not on the ballot; New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia, telling his supporters after the election what he was careful not to say before, blamed his Party's weak choice. He described Bennet as "cultured, educated and experienced" and Torrens as a "Tammany wardheeler...
Canada's prime interest is in the $46,000,000 "northwest staging route": six key airports from Edmonton to Whitehorse, with runways bigger than New York's LaGuardia Field...