THE PRESIDENCY: New Line-Up

Mayor LaGuardia, upset by Manhattan's unseasonably chilly weather, was lying abed with a cold one afternoon last week, when a call from Washington got him to the phone. It was President Roosevelt, telling the mayor that he was to head the U. S. delegation on the new Canadian-U. S. Joint Defense Board. The stubby, broad-jawed little mayor was up in no time, making no bones about his vast satisfaction with the news: ". . . Something I've been thinking of and dreaming of, at least for the last two years." Cold forgotten,...

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