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NEW YORK: LaGuardia v. Hitler

Jewish women are forever holding meetings in New York City. New York's 54-year-old Mayor, short, swart Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, is forever making speeches. No one would have paid much attention to a speech he made last week before the Women's Division luncheon of the American Jewish Congress at the Hotel Astor if the German press had not burst out after it in a paroxysm of rage prodigious even for Naziland.

"A dirty Talmud Jew!" shrieked the DNB, official Nazi press bureau.

"Procurer!" screamed Der Angriff, personal organ of Dr. Paul Goebbels, Minister for...

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