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...Columbia. With the inception of the New Deal he served in various capacities, notably as special counsel to the RFO and financial adviser to the American Embassy in Cuba. Since 1934 he has directed the legal affairs of New York City as City Chamberlain in Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration. His address at the plenary session on Saturday will be the last formal speech of the Conference
...more truthful copy, fewer superlatives. In 1935 Saks Fifth Avenue made him their vice president (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Between times he darted off to Europe every summer, predicted Hitler's success six months before the event, advised New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in his 1933 Fusion Campaign, New York's Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany...
...would put the city gradually on a pay-as-you-go basis, reduce debt charges and eliminate graft at the expense of property, owners against whom assessments are made for improvements. The New York Merchants' Association, the Citizens' Union, the Community Councils of New York along with Fusion Mayor LaGuardia and civitarians generally gave the new chapter vigorous support. Bitterly Tammany assailed it and redoubled its efforts particularly against a second proposition on the voting machines, providing that members of the new City Council should be elected by proportional representation. Even "bigger-than-Tammany" Al Smith, stout proponent...
...Pittsburgh last week New York's Republican-Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced himself for Franklin Roosevelt "without reserve." In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's Uncle Dan, a Minnesota farm paper editor, declared that New Deal agricultural policies filled him with "doubt and fear," said he would vote for Landon...
Prime mover for the Triborough Bridge was Robert Moses. In 1933 as New York State Emergency Public Works Commission Chairman, he organized the Triborough Bridge Authority, begged and borrowed the New Deal millions. Made New York City's Fusion Park Commissioner in 1934, he worked out the essential chain of highways tying the bridge into Long Island's great parkway system and East Side Manhattan traffic. The heart of the Triborough begins with a suspension bridge across Hell Gate to Wards Island, whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split...