Word: fiorello
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Shortly afterwards, "the smiling, swarthy, confident little Socialist from New York," Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, wrote a letter to U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis. He asserted that "this Grand Duke Boris" was coming to the U. S. He wanted Secretary Davis to make sure that the Grand Duke was not likely to become a public charge. Said he; "I believe the department would be justified in ascertaining whether these repudiated, unemployed and shiftless dukes and archdukes are not coming here with the intention of overthrowing our republican form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According...