A request that the Civic Virtue statue, which is to be removed from its spot near City Hall by the Sinking Fund Commission, be assigned to one of the parks of the Lower East Side has been forwarded to Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia by the Jewish Political Club of Greater New York.
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