Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three months the New York Post has published a pint-size box reporting: "LaGuardia Today . . . flew to Buffalo [or Washington or Boston or Chicago, etc.]." On a good day the Mayor sometimes flies to two cities in different directions (not counting New York City, where he often flies straight...
...such airy reasons Fiorello H. (for Enrico) LaGuardia was in deep trouble last week. Hard upon him was the quadrennial mayoralty election; hotter than ever on his neck was the breath of the unkillable Tammany Tiger. And Tammany had a new argument: "New York wants a full-time Mayor...
...Mayor was still offensive to all solemn and stuffy New Yorkers who value dignity more than good (though somewhat fantastic) government-and there are many such in the Republican Party. When LaGuardia took office in 1934, New York had unpaid bills of some $100,000,000, while its October 1941 bank balance was more than $218,000,000; the LaGuardia administration, while effecting enormous economies of management, had built 92 new school buildings, 14 health-center buildings, nine child-health stations, 25 hospital buildings, 325 playgrounds, 15 outdoor swimming pools, 845 wading pools, 252 tennis courts, 8,210 acres...
Against these achievements are the undoubted facts that the Mayor is spending no less money than his Tammany predecessors, that he is head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy...
Reported the august (and sometimes deadpan) New York Times: "Speaking in Tammany Hall to an audience composed almost entirely of precinct workers in the Tammany organization, District Attorney William O'Dwyer [Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York] declared last night his complete independence of political machines and political bosses...