Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military "eyes." The eyes, better known as Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, the President now recalled from the post of Minister to New Zealand. He assigned General Hurley as a "utility man" in the Middle East. Next he prepared to send New York City's bumptious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia overseas, presumably as a brigadier general (see p. 12) to North Africa...
...World War I, New York City's bouncy little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was a ball of buna in the U.S. Air Service. From his base in Italy, he soared on bombing raids over the Alps, haggled with his superiors, smuggled steel out of Spain, cracked protocol like crockery...
...that Butch LaGuardia, now 60, would also bounce his 175-lb. around in World War II. The President was ready to sign an order commissioning him as a brigadier general. Wrote Reporter Dixon: "The order suggests that Army doctors blink at whatever spavins, heaves, or horsecollar sores the wild Mayor may have and pass him if he is able to stand on his feet...
...Mayor will probably be sent to North Africa as an administrator of conquered territory, eventually may be U.S. administrator of a liberated Italy. New Yorkers have found nine years of the Little Flower, scolding, sulking, racing to fires, waving his cowboy hat, chasing after bingo players, a little too strenuous. Italians, weary of their high officials' maestoso struttings, might take Butch's pizzicato to their hearts...
Henry Travers does an excellent job as the fumbling, humbly heroic Norwegian mayor; so does Dorris Bowdon (Mrs. Nunnally Johnson) as the slayer of a Nazi officer who tries to seduce her. In the story's most controversial role, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as the Nazi commander, looks more like a cold-blooded Junker than like the unmilitary officer described by Steinbeck...