The Press: Don't Push Me Around

Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM, which is loudly "against people who push other people around," is itself probably journalism's No. 1 pusher-arounder. Its Editor Ralph McAllister Ingersoll last week directed a hearty shove at one of his own columnists, Fiorello LaGuardia. Wrote Ingersoll:

"Ex-Mayor LaGuardia said on the air Sunday that he was on Bill O'Dwyer's side in the transit crisis. He certainly should beĀ—since he's the fellow who got Bill O'Dwyer into his present fix. ... If O'Dwyer gets into trouble, LaGuardia can always quote him another fable or two in PM. Fiorello won't have to take the rap."

No man to be pushed...

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