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Three months ago, New York City's bouncing little Mayor Fiorello Henry ("Little Flower") LaGuardia declared a one-man war on indecent magazines, sat himself down and wrote a warning letter to 1,300 metropolitan newsdealers. Said he: "The Mayor has power of sewage disposal, and if necessary I will get rid of these dirty magazines as filth...
Nothing much happened, so one day last fortnight the Mayor acted. He sent out 40 Department of Sanitation garbage trucks to round up copies of a new magazine titled Man to Man, published by Country Press, a subsidiary of Fawcett Publications, Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., whose prosperous publishing business was founded on the late Captain Billy Fawcett's rowdy Whiz Bang (TIME...
Last week, in the Mayor's City Hall office, Crusader LaGuardia again sat in judgment as a magistrate, heard Distributor Stolz's case, decided to hold him for trial. (Penalty if convicted: up to a year in jail, $1,000 fine, or both...
Meanwhile, a warrant was issued for the arrest of one Morris Newman, alias John Milkowicz, described by Mayor LaGuardia's Commissioner of Investigation as the "smut king" of Manhattan. Accused of publishing a dozen indecent magazines which he distributed at a rate of 50,000 copies a month, through five shops in New York and Jersey City, King Newman was out of town, reportedly celebrating the Jewish New Year. This week he turned up, was held for trial along with Distributor Stolz...
...When Mayor LaGuardia was elected, he appointed as hospital commissioner a stern-faced doctor who for years had been head of top-flight Mt. Sinai Hospital, and onetime chief of Manhattan's department of health - Sigismund Schulz Goldwater. Dr. Goldwater fired political appointees, drew up strict rules for the management of all New York City hospitals. He wangled research appropriations for the hospital department from the city for the first time in history. During his administration he spent over $50,000,000 for hospital construction. But, says he, "I am just as proud of the old buildings I demolished...