Word: laguardias
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This vast daily fountain of print is a national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
These painful episodes were neither continuous nor frequent, but they kept up. Last winter they became intolerable. In February LaGuardia told Room Niners that he wouldn't talk to them again until they learned how to quote him accurately. In the spring, overworked and editorially battered, he resigned as head of the Office of Civilian Defense. By then he showed unmistakable signs of being unable to distinguish between criticism of his public acts and his oversensitive self...
...were shocked a few days ago to read that Mayor LaGuardia proposes to strip the New York parks of all things metal in an ill-advised war-aid gesture, saying that the War Department will replace them with newly won war relics...
...first need for heat in homes along the Atlantic Seaboard. But last week, barely 30 days before a decision on fuel oil rationing must be made, the true picture of this winter's oil shortage was still buried. Into the ground probed New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, and the governors of six New England States...
...Bleated LaGuardia, answering the Chicago Daily News which asked if Midwest rationing could really help: "Present stocks and current supplies [of petroleum] are short of essential needs by 25,000,000 barrels. The Midwest can help." Panicked at the nearness of the first frosts, Petroleum Coordinator Ickes halted some 5,000 tank cars still carrying gasoline to 20 Midwest and Southwest States, ordered them into eastern service...