Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could have knocked Frank Hague over with a split ballot. In his 26 years as Mayor of Jersey City, he had done more than his bit to establish himself as the U. S.'s prime suppressor of civil liberties. His hired thugs made an almost ceremonial fox hunt out of chasing labor organizers and, especially, Communists out of town. Now the Communists swore they loved him. The U. S. press laughed itself silly...
...would be just as well for United Nations propaganda if New York's Mayor LaGuardia were removed from the air. Italians find his Italian comical, his phrasing in such poor taste that not even Italian department-store...
...Guardia's Answer. News like this made New York City's fiery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia explode before a Congressional committee. Said the Little Flower: Unless Congress takes effective action on food production and distribution, "the whole administration of food is going to bog down-and hell is going to break loose in this country...
...Mayor La Guardia plumped for subsidies. Congress had already made up its mind...
...York City's peppery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia warned his 7,500,000 constituents to go "very easy" on meat: "The supply of beef is about as low as it has ever been in the entire country." He predicted a meat "famine...