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...last week fiery Mayor-elect Fiorello H. (for Enrico) LaGuardia announced the new face-fronts for his New Deal. They were young faces, very earnest, very mental...
...Mayor-elect LaGuardia's other appointments were...
...precedent of long standing was rudely overturned when Mr. Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor-elect of New York, announced to newspaper men that henceforth local banquets must carry on without the mayoral presence. There will, it seems, be no more of the screaming police escorts, secret exits, and hasty fitting from table to table which has characterized other administrations. The mayor has work...
...aside from all possible ulterior motives, Mr. La Guardia's desertion of the toastmaster's pedestal is admirably in accord with the times. It represents the banishment to triviality of a function which his forerunners have allowed to assume undue proportion. Having withdrawn as a public entertainer, Mayor-elect La Guardia may perhaps conduct a regime noted for something more substantial than the well-fitting tuxedo and elegant bon mots of its leader...
...mayor-elect would give no definite notice as to policies when in office both because of and until the recount and until he has a chance to see at first hand the conditions surrounding him when he enters office. However, he did say, "I shall do my utmost to fulfill my party pledges of reduction of taxes, full value to the taxpayers for their taxes, earnest and capable men for department heads, and special observance of the laws regulating advertising of contracts, prohibiting splitting of contracts and collusive bidding. These last evils must be stamped out. I shall...