UNRRA
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Said Lehman: "UNRRA . . . will be unable to provide all the assistance which is so clearly needed in the world today."
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This was a life-saving fund, and Under Secretary of State William Clayton pledged that it would only be used to fill the gap left by an expiring UNRRA.
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Next, the U.S. chipped in to establish UNRRA, a desperate charity aimed at stopping hunger in a war-destroyed world.
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The plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero.
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Until The Hat plunked into their ring, most Democrats had assumed that quiet, ailing former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who was LaGuardia's predecessor as head of UNRRA, would be their Senate candidate.
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