November 19, 1944

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Mayor La Guardia starts his weekly program by talking about the Allied advance on the western front in Europe. He also notes a Swiss report about Hitler having a brain clot and suggests they are wrong and that "they might have found a little brain on his clot." The Mayor talks at length about the scarcity of sugar and rationing. He advises listeners to use honey for their baking instead. The turkey situation is not bad, says the Mayor, but there is still a shortage and he's sorry he won't be able to provide turkey to city hospital patients on Thanksgiving. There will be, however, 50,000 pounds of chicken. Before closing the Mayor covers race track betting, the bad business practices of the Railway Express Company, the city's health insurance plan, apartments without heat, the resignation of Justice Stephen Jackson, the national war fund, and FDR's planned evening speech on the war loan.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 71100
Municipal archives id: LT4069