Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thinking over the anti-U. S. scurrility which boiled up in the State-controlled German press last fortnight after New York's Mayor LaGuardia had called Hitler a "brown-shirted fanatic" (TIME, March 15), the wife of New York's famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise last week began to boil, too. Off to Secretary of State Hull she shot a hot letter calling his attention to remarks in No. 3 Nazi Goebbels' Der Angriff* demanding an official rebuke...
...some of the German newspapers went, perhaps, beyond the desired limits, this was due only to irritation. An insult to the American nation was by no means intended." The German press, which had banner-headlined Secretary Hull's "very earnest" regrets in response to the German protest against Mayor LaGuardia's crack week before, ignored both U. S. protest and Nazi explanation. At the same time, however, the press did quit belaboring the U. S., becoming absorbed in the 40th anniversary as a soldier of Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
...American Jewish Congresswomen whom Mayor LaGuardia addressed were described as "women of the streets" listening to a "pimp and procurer...
...Entry fees total $218,000 ($5 apiece from each contestant for each event) of which $145,000 will be distributed as prizes. Last week in the 212th Coast Artillery Armory, equipped with banners, grandstands, 28 brand-new alleys and a midway, New York's plump little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia bowled the first ball. It rolled ignominiously into the gutter and Congress was in session...
...experience of New York and other cities indicates that if the office of Mayor is to be kept honest and efficient the political backing of the incumbents must not be based on petty graft and favoritism in the back wards. If honest municipal administration does as much for the poor in housing and recreation and health and crime prevention, the poor are not tempted to give their vote to the man who brings a sack of coal in winter and a peddling license in summer. A possible alternative way to knock out the machines is to adopt the city-manager...