Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates got into the public eye as much as possible as the campaign spat to a close last week. But through it all, flashing the personality that has endeared him to New Yorkers even when they were weary of his clowning, fussy, dumpy, outgoing Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia never once lost the center spotlight he loves...
...Sunday radio program, the Mayor (who leaves office on Dec. 31) lectured New York housewives on the best way to cook a big turkey in a small oven: "The stern of the turkey, you know, the rear end-they call it the rudder here-is cut off about one inch." Later, he confided to a gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan...
...Bubble Gum. Friday was his big day. In the morning the Mayor paid a surprise visit to a Manhattan traffic court, lectured and grimaced through 197 cases. At 10:30 Friday night, following Governor Dewey's dignified, half-hour endorsement of Republican-Liberal-Fusion Candidate Jonah J. Goldstein, Fiorello LaGuardia had one of his most sparkling innings. "You know," he cackled, "we prepared the studio today to hear the Governor. We put tapes on the windows, we braced ourselves, we wore lead-glass goggles, ready for the atomic bomb. And all we heard was the snap...
Next day, in his office, the Mayor presented scholarships and instruments to 29 musical children, warned their parents: "Don't make them play pieces for company before they are ready." Saturday, after a final boot at Tammany and its candidate, O'Dwyer, he called it a week...
...tickled thousands, and fascinated thousands. But he had bored very few. Perhaps that was his secret, even more than his withering frankness and his relentless fight for honest government. Whatever it was, the people knew one thing for certain: after 12 years New York City was losing the best Mayor it had ever...