Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denounced the high price of opera more eloquently than New York City's operatic Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia. Last week he began practicing what he had preached, sponsored a highly promising opera company of the City's own. He had been itching to do so ever since two years ago, when the City inherited a massive masterpiece of Turkish-bath rococo, formerly known as Mecca Temple, which had succumbed through tax delinquency...
...Mayor LaGuardia renamed it the City Center of Music and Drama. City Center opera was popularly priced at a $2.20 top. The roster of its horseshoe glittered not with Astors and Vanderbilts, but with such noted figures as ex-Police Commissioner George V. McLaughlin, National Maritime Union President Joe Curran, International Ladies Garment Workers' President David Dubinsky, and Jacob Rosenberg, president of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians...
...handle the musical end, Mayor LaGuardia imported a fiery Hungarian-born conductor named Laszlo Halasz, from the St. Louis Grand Opera. Halasz brought some St. Louis scenery, auditioned hun dreds of singers, rehearsed like mad for twelve weeks...
City detectives sent ori a man hunt could find nobody who had seen the vandals at work. Mayor LaGuardia posted a $500 reward. The State Secretary of the Communist Party damned the daubing as "Fascist vandalism directed against the unity of the United Nations and the American people...
Last week in faultless Italian, the Mayor of the world's biggest city broadcast to Italy. Addressing Count Sforza (famed anti-Badoglio Liberal) as "my dear friend," Fiorello LaGuardia said: "We are at a loss here to understand the political situation in Italy. ... The policy of our Government ... is that . . . the form of permanent Government to be adopted, and the economy of the country, are to be left entirely to the decision of the people of Italy. . . . Inasmuch as a change is to be made, it should be made without delay. ... It should not be hampered by anything related...