Sublime

It was the Economic Attaché. He beamed down at us from the terrace above, a great warm welcoming smile, full of confidence, like the man who keeps his friends because he uses the right deodorants.

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And it was Moses who was enabling him to obtain the plans and the money. An astonishing number of La Guardia’s dreams were being realized—by 1936, New York City was receiving one-seventh of the WPA allotment for the entire country—and the Mayor knew who was responsible. He must have known every time he went down to Washington for one of the

In the first place, the people in the mass that he understood were people of a particular social strata that his own background enabled him to understand: the classes he called “upper” and “comfortable middle.” He had never had any interest in—and therefore had little understanding of—classes he considered beneath his own, the classes who made up

But Robert Moses didn’t have to worry about enemies as long as his friend stuck by him. And his friend stuck. Smith’s unprecedented popularity—proven by the ease with which he defeated Mills, a popular Republican running in a heavily Republican state—had given him unprecedented power in the state. And he let the Senate know that he would, if