 After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, his role was turned over to full-time director of OCD, James M. Landis.La Guardia's popularity slipped away and he ran so poorly in straw polls in 1945 that he did not run for a fourth term.Unemployment ended, and the city was a gateway for military supplies and soldiers sent to Europe, with the Brooklyn Navy Yard providing many of the warships and the garment trade providing uniforms.