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PM, November 11, 1941

“Like Rats, Out of the Slums… And Like Well-Dressed Rats They Die”


PM, November 13, 1941 (Photos by Alan Fisher, Irving Haberman, Wide World)


PM, November 6, 1940

The Lower East Side Watches Its Champ Win
“Thousands of the people who most love the President jammed East Broadway on the lower East Side last night to cheer his third-term victory. They are reading election bulletins flashed by the Jewish Daily Forward in this remarkable photo. Photo by Weegee
PM, November 6, 1940







PM, November 5, 1941

La Guardia re-elected. (By aprox. 133,841 votes.)
“The La Guardias always spend Election Night alone with phone off and radio on. No newspaper men ever got in on Election Night…
Ray Platnick of PM wrote a note on a card:
“Your honor – Just one victory picture, please…”
“You know, I’m tired,” he said, “but I don’t mind getting up for you photographers. But I don’t like reporters.”…
“Caption it, ‘We got the Mayor out of bed to pose for pictures.'” PM, November 5, 1941, p. 13