Fusion Oath

In the Elizabethan library where Samuel Seabury plotted Tammany's destruction some three years ago, last week swart little Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia faced a New York Supreme Court Justice reading him an oath of office. "I do so solemnly swear,'' snapped Mr. LaGuardia, thereupon turning and kissing the plain earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed, the Evening Post's Cartoonist Sebastian Robles drew a caricature of grinning Mayor LaGuardia which, when inverted, reveals the prognathous face of ex-Mayor O'Brien. In taking charge of the nation's greatest city, Mayor LaGuardia promised a mighty program of reforms ranging from slum eradication to making Staten Island a free port.*

*A port which charges no duty on merchandise warehoused for transshipment.

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