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With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.
* 1939 – New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
* 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
* 1882 – Fiorello La Guardia, American statesman ( d. 1947 )
Howard Knox ( surgeon ), Antonio Frabasilis ( interpreter ), Peter Mikolainis ( interpreter ), Maud Mosher ( matron ), Fiorello H. La Guardia ( interpreter ), and Philip Cowen ( immigrant inspector ).
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.
La Guardia revitalized New York City and restored public faith in City Hall.
His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.
It was in Trieste that Achille La Guardia met and married Irene.
Fiorello La Guardia was raised an Episcopalian and practised that religion all his life.
La Guardia joined the State Department and served in U. S. consulates in Budapest, Trieste ( Italy ), and Fiume ( Austria-Hungary ), now Rijeka ( Croatia ), ( 1901 – 1906 ).
Unlike most progressive colleagues, such as Norris, La Guardia consistently backed internationalism, speaking in favor of the League of Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union as well as peace and disarmament conferences.
As a Republican La Guardia had to support Harding in 1920 ; he had to be silent in the 1928 campaign although he favored Al Smith, a Democrat.
On the other hand La Guardia had enormous determination, high visibility, the support of reformer Samuel Seabury and the ability to ruin prospects of any rival by a divisive primary contest.
" In 1934, LaGuardia went on a search-and-destroy mission looking for mob boss Frank Costello's slot machines, which La Guardia executed with gusto, rounding up thousands of the " one armed bandits ", swinging a sledgehammer and dumping them off a barge into the water for the newspapers and media.
In 1935, La Guardia appeared at The Bronx Terminal Market to institute a city-wide ban on the sale, display, and possession of artichokes, whose prices were inflated by mobs.
Historians have recognized La Guardia as among the best mayors in New York City history and perhaps among the greatest in modern U. S. history.
* In 1940, La Guardia received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award " in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York ".
* La Guardia loved music, and was famous for spontaneously conducting professional and student orchestras.
La Guardia ordered construction of the airport after his TWA flight arrived at Newark, New Jersey.
* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.
* La Guardia Bridge in Prescott, Arizona on North Montezuma Avenue, is named after him.
* " Ulica Fiorella La Guardije " ( Fiorello La Guardia Street ) is the name of a street in Rijeka, Croatia.

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Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in La Grande Armée of Napoleon.
Versailles is served by Versailles – Chantiers station, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line C, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line, and on several national rail lines, including low-frequency TGV service.
La Paz is served by El Alto International Airport ( IATA code: LPB ), which is situated eight miles ( 14 km ) south-west of La Paz.
Higher education is served by the Wodonga Institute of TAFE and La Trobe University.
Also involved in theatre ( having served as playwright at the Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde ), Carrier has adapted La guerre, yes sir!
He joined the board of La Caixa, Spain's largest savings bank, in 1984, and served as President of the board from 1987 to 1999.
It was in La Castellane that Zidane had his earliest introduction to football, joining in at the age of five in football games that the neighbourhood's children played on the Place Tartane, an 80-by-12-yard plaza that served as the main square of the housing complex.
His family, although belonging only to the lesser nobility of Poitou, was somewhat prominent: his father, François du Plessis, seigneur de Richelieu, was a soldier and courtier, who served as the Grand Provost of France ; his mother, Susanne de La Porte, was the daughter of a famous jurist.
Beginning on October 22, 1999, Papon served time at the La Santé Prison in Paris.
It is also served by several TER Poitou-Charentes regional railway routes, including a route from Poitiers via Niort to La Rochelle, a route from Niort to Saintes, and a route from Tours to Thouars and Bressuire.
Most of La Salle County is served by the Cotulla Independent School District.
Bayou La Batre is served by the Mobile County Public School System.
Because of its western location, which saved days of sailing time, La Rochelle enjoyed successful fishing in the western Atlantic and trading with the New World, which served to counterbalance the disadvantage of not being at the mouth of a river ( useful for shipping goods to and from the interior ).
La Rochelle and its region are served by the international La Rochelle-Île de Ré Airport, which has progressively developed over the last 5 years.
La Riviera is served by both the Sacramento City Unified School District and the Folsom-Cordova School District.
La Presa is served by a 91977 ZIP code, which is considered Spring Valley according to the USPS.
Countryside is served by La Grange School District 105.
Since its inception, the open space has served the parishes of La Salle, Winn, Grant, and Caldwell, and it is now called the Olla Fairgrounds.
Hardtner served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from La Salle Parish as well as long service on the La Salle Parish Police Jury.
The city is served by the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.

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