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Other featured characters include Robin, a young woman who has pushed beyond the structure of dominant / submissive role playing and is trained to be a slave ; Anderson, a Master Trainer who not only trains slaves but mentors new trainers ; and Michael LaGuardia, an overconfident man who believes he can be a slave trainer.

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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.
In 1919, LaGuardia was chosen to run as the Republican candidate for the office of President of the New York City Board of Aldermen.
As a congressman, LaGuardia was a tireless and vocal champion of progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U. S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families.
A goad to the era's plutocrats and their enablers in government, LaGuardia fought for progressive income taxes, greater government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for workers idled by the Great Depression.
1932 was not a good year for Republican candidates like LaGuardia, and the 20th Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population to a Puerto Rican population.
LaGuardia supported Roosevelt, chairing the Independent Committee for Roosevelt and Wallace with Senator George Norris during the 1940 presidential election.
" 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 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for prosecution.
Responding to popular disdain for the sometimes corrupt City Council, LaGuardia successfully proposed a reformed 1938 City Charter that created a powerful new New York City Board of Estimate, similar to a corporate board of directors.
" In 1937, speaking before the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress, LaGuardia called for the creation of a special pavilion at the upcoming New York World's Fair, " a chamber of horrors " for " that brown-shirted fanatic ".
As he had made no provision for her, she lived in very reduced circumstances, in a LaGuardia public housing project in Queens, New York, until her death in 1962.
Roosevelt was an admirer of LaGuardia ; after meeting Winston Churchill for the first time he described him as " an English Mayor LaGuardia.
FDR refused to make LaGuardia a general and was unable to provide fresh money for the city.
LaGuardia was the director general for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) in 1946.
* In addition to LaGuardia High School, a number of other institutions are also named for him, including LaGuardia Community College.
* 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.
During the supernatural chaos towards the end of the film, LaGuardia is said to have come back to talk to the current mayor of New York in his bedroom for an hour and a half, despite LaGuardia's being " dead for forty years ".
Without telling his parents, Prinze successfully auditioned for the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, where he was introduced to drama and continued ballet — and where he discovered his gift for comedy while entertaining crowds in the boys restroom.

LaGuardia and Floyd
The West Side Highway, East River Drive, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Triborough Bridge, and two airports ( Floyd Bennett Field, and, later, LaGuardia Airport ) were built during his mayoralty.
As LaGuardia was never able to convince the Postal Service to move its New York City operations from Newark to Floyd Bennett Field, neither did the airlines relocate.
The cast included Sorrell Booke ( Fiorello LaGuardia ), Art Lund ( Ben Marino ), Lola Fisher ( Thea ), Dody Goodman ( Dora ), Barbara Williams ( Marie ), Paul Lipson ( Morris ), Richard France ( Neil ), Dort Clark ( Floyd ), and Helen Verbit ( Mrs. Pomerantz ).

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According to Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf, LaGuardia often officiated in municipal court.

LaGuardia and Field
1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.
* December 16, 1960 – Mid-air collision between TWA Flight 266 ( inbound to Idlewild Airport, now JFK ) and United Airlines Flight 826 ( inbound to LaGuardia Airport ) over Miller Field, Staten Island.
New York Municipal Airport -- LaGuardia Field opened on October 15, 1939 and the Marine Air Terminal was dedicated in March 1940.
The parkway runs through Queens and passes the Cross Island Parkway, Long Island Expressway, LaGuardia Airport and Citi Field, home of the New York Mets.
The American Airlines DC-6, carrying a registration number of N90728 and the title " Flagship of South Carolina ", had taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City bound for Mexico City with intermediate stopovers at Washington National Airport and Dallas Love Field.
The aircraft refueled at Anchorage ( Merrill Field ) and took off at 8: 12 p. m. to continue on to its destination, New York City ( LaGuardia Airport ).

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Walker and his Irish-run Tammany Hall were forced out of office by scandal and LaGuardia was determined to replace him.

LaGuardia and Newark
On Thursday night, the New York area airports ( JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark ) were closed again and reopened the next morning.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal and the PATH rail system are also run by the Port Authority, as well as LaGuardia Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, Teterboro Airport and Stewart International Airport.
A similar example is New York City ( NYC ), in which the airport codes LGA ( LaGuardia Airport ), JFK ( John F. Kennedy International Airport ), and EWR ( Newark Liberty International Airport ) are used for the same city, although the latter is located in a different city and state.
Five major airlines offer over 60 flights a day to and from Bangor International Airport, giving the city non-stop service to Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Orlando, and seasonal non-stop service to New York's LaGuardia Airport and Minneapolis.
Bloomfield is 7. 5 miles from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark / Elizabeth, and 28. 8 miles from LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens.
Verona is from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark / Elizabeth, and almost double the miles farther from John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport.
These airports are Newark Liberty International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy Airport.
Little Falls is approximately from Newark Liberty International Airport and approximately from LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens, New York.
Wayne is from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark / Elizabeth, and from LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens.
Because there are fewer flights to choose from, most Bay Shore residents ( like other Long Islanders ) travel to larger and more accommodative airports for most of their air travel, such as John F Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in the Borough of Queens in New York City, and Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
The first scheme was started in 1968 when higher landing fees for peak-hour use by aircraft with 25 seats or less at Newark, Kennedy, and LaGuardia airports in New York City.
Travel and Leisure magazine's 2009 " America's Favorite Cities " ranked Chicago's Airport System ( O ' Hare and Midway ) the second-worst for delays, New York City's airport system ( JFK, Newark Liberty, and LaGuardia ) being the first.
Major airports in the New York Metropolitan Area: John F. Kennedy International Airport | John F. Kennedy ( 1 ), LaGuardia Airport | LaGuardia ( 2 ) and Newark Liberty ( 3 ).
The FAA designated LIMA an Official Metro Airport in early 2011, meaning it is now grouped with LaGuardia, JFK and Newark in travel and informational searches for New York airports, providing better exposure to the traveling public.
The nearest major airport to Poughkeepsie is Stewart International Airport about south in Newburgh, with the three major metropolitan airports for New York City-John F. Kennedy International approximately south, Newark Liberty International approximately south, and LaGuardia Airport approximately south-and Albany International Airport approximately north.
United first began serving Huntsville in the early 1960's when this air carrier acquired Capital Airlines which had been operating four engine Vickers Viscount turboprop airliners nonstop to Memphis, Knoxville and Washington, D. C. with direct, no change of plane service to New York ( via both LaGuardia and Newark airports ) and Philadelphia.
During the 1920s, the Newhouse family loaned money to Henry Garfinkle, which enabled him to open newsstands that increased sales of the Newhouse family's Staten Island Advance at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island, and later opened newsstands throughout Manhattan, as well as LaGuardia Airport, Newark Airport, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal ( the world's largest and most lucrative newsstand ).

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