Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and U.S. officials both tried to pass off the egg-throwing lightly. Detroit's embarrassed Mayor Jeffries, whose police could not find the egg-throwers, philosophized: "When you come right down to it, people aren't very civilized." Members of The American Mothers said they did not do it, blamed another organization called Mothers of the U.S.A. The Mothers of the U.S.A. (both groups this week are picketing the White House) blamed The American Mothers. Said Lord Halifax: "My feeling was one of envy that people have eggs and tomatoes to throw about. In England these...
When bee-busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week boom-buzzed into office (by a slim plurality of 133,841) as New York City's first third-term mayor, a crack in the Democratic Party widened to a crevasse...
Sniped gum-champing Edward J. Flynn, Democratic National Chairman: "[The Mayor is] a vain popinjay...
...York's mayoralty election, steatopygous Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whose tongue is a potent weapon but an unruly member, cut loose with an all-out show for the voters, mixing mock tears with invective, prayers with abuse, fireworks with slaps of the cold towel. His language got him in the kind of trouble he likes best: name-calling. The little rump-sprung Mayor, who has been campaigning New York City for 24 years, had a far shrewder appreciation than his opponents of the delicate art of abuse. He started the ball rolling by putting the name of Governor Herbert Lehman...
Flynn: "... A mucker who has run amuck ... a demagogue of demagogues . . . the greatest faker on the American political scene ... the most super-colossal hypocrite . . . clown . . . this mountebank Mayor." Farley: "Breast-beating faker." Lehman: ". . . Shameless, scurrilous . . . insulting and vicious...