Word: mayoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Esau. Next to New York City's spunky, part-Jewish Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, whose manhandling by a disgruntled WPAster was front-page German news last week, the U. S. politician whom Nazis hate most is that spade-is-a-spade "Aryan," Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes...
...implication of these outbursts was that Secretary Ickes did not represent U. S. opinion, would soon be cast into "oblivion." Apparently unaware how much that opinion has changed since the State Department last year apologized for Mayor LaGuardia's onslaught on the Führer as a "gangster," Germany's Foreign Office last week sent bland, blond Charge d'Affaires Thomsen to the State Department with a "sharply worded" demand for another apology...
Attacked from behind and knocked down on the steps of the City Hall by a discharged WPAster suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The fracas over, he remarked: "That's nothing to some of the blows I've taken under the belt. ... It was fortunate for him that I was not facing...
...being Red, decided that Frederick Robinson lacked "the human qualities" needed by a college president, asked the Board of Higher Education to do something about it. Still Tammany-controlled, the board refused to oust him. But last June, as the result of new appointments to the board by reform Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Dr. Robinson's supporters were outnumbered. He applied for a sabbatical year. The college calmed, today is as peaceful as a vacated battle field. When Dr. Robinson offered his resignation last week, with one hand the board snapped it up, with the other gratefully applauded his "long...
...York City's scholarly, bald-domed Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran was asked to help in a drive against baldness. He replied: "Why not be bald? Nobody ever made a nickel out of his hair. We cannot sell it,* or use it, or rent it, or put it in a show window. . . . Blessings on thee, baldhead...