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Candidate LaGuardia Threat to Tammany
Who's afraid of the big, bad Tiger? Not table-banging, fire-eating Fiorello LaGuardia, fusion candidate for Mayor of New York—"fusion" meaning Republicans and anyone else who wants to join them. Ex-Congressman LaGuardia has a better chance than he had four years ago, when Jimmy Walker snowed him under. He has, in fact, the best chance of any fusion candidate since 1913, when the sainted John Purroy Mitchel was elected. Item 1, the helpless mediocrity of present Mayor O'Brien; item 2, the growing resentment against the power wielded by John Curry, the Tammany chief; item 3, the unpopular tax measures which O'Brien has been forced to levy so that the city can borrow money
