Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

Charlotte Fairchild was excellent as the loyal Marie, who became the second Mrs. LaGuardia, singing and acting with remarkable conviction.

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.

LaGuardia, a Republican who appealed across party lines, was very popular in New York during the 1930s.

LaGuardia was born in Greenwich Village in New York City to two Italian immigrant parents.

As a congressman, LaGuardia represented an ethnically diverse slum district in East Harlem and, although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes.

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

In 1919, LaGuardia was chosen to run as the Republican candidate for the office of President of the New York City Board of Aldermen.

This number was sufficient to defeat Moran, who lost to LaGuardia by only 1, 363 votes.

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.

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.

However, it has also been argued that powerful Tammany Hall boss Jimmy Hines was able to successfully get enough votes forged to get LaGuardia unseated in this election as well.

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

LaGuardia was not an orthodox Republican.

LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.

LaGuardia was also a very active Freemason.

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.

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.

The airline also was a leader in the adoption of advanced technologies ; it introduced some of the first passenger self-service check-in kiosks in coordination with Kinetics at its LaGuardia base and partnered with LapStop, a startup firm which rented laptop computers to passengers.

When black residents of Harlem rioted in 1935 after false reports that a youth arrested for shoplifting had been killed by the police, Communist Party activists joined with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and NAACP leader Walter White to try to avert further violence.

As the district leader Ben and his political buddies play poker (" Politics And Poker "), Marie introduces LaGuardia as a potential Congressional candidate.

LaGuardia loathed the gangsters who brought a negative stereotype and shame to the Italian community.

Her parents encouraged her to perform, and her father, who had been named New York City's " official magician " by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia during the Great Depression, taught her to perform specialized magic acts by age 13.

The October 2, 1937, issue of the Socialist Appeal included a convention call from the so-called " Left Wing " to " All Locals and Branches of the Socialist Party ," accusing the NEC of the party of having " betrayed the principles of socialism " by withdrawing the party's candidate for Mayor of New York in favor of LaGuardia and for having ordered " the bureaucratic expulsion of all the revolutionary members of the party who oppose and obstruct this sell-out policy.

In addition, the airport serves travelers from the Greater New York Metropolitan Area and around the nation who want a more convenient alternative to the congestion at JFK and LaGuardia airports – both located in Queens.

The pair call Billy's mother, who tells her son that there is an attorney in the family, Billy's cousin, Vincent LaGuardia " Vinny " Gambini ( Joe Pesci ), who travels to Beechum County accompanied by his fiancée, Mona Lisa Vito ( Marisa Tomei ).

Williams graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art in Manhattan, where he was a classmate of Diahann Carroll, who coincidentally played the wife of his character Brady Lloyd on the 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty.

He is a compulsive gambler who successfully avoids gambling for several years until " The Diplomat's Club ", in which he bets with a wealthy Texan on the arrival and departure times of flights going into New York's LaGuardia Airport.

His exit from the show had happened offscreen ; LaGuardia had retired from the 14th Precinct and had moved to New Jersey with a new female companion who was less than half his age.

When the train arrived at Times Square, BMT president William S. Menden handed over his company's properties to Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who then gave them to New York City Board of Transportation chairman John H. Delaney.

He is interviewed by Deborah De LaGuardia who recommends him to Josh Lyman for another job, as the President's personal aide.

The building was designed by architect and skyscraper pioneer Harvey Wiley Corbett ( who would later have a hand in designing New York's Rockefeller Center ) and was supervised by his assistant, Wallace Harrison ( who would later design Lincoln Center, LaGuardia Airport and the U. N. Headquarters Building ).

The $ 5, 050, 000 loaned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation fueled the project, which was completed in October 1934, with an opening ceremony run by Moses, who was running for Governor of New York as a Republican Party candidate and New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

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.

is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican who took on Tammany Hall.

" 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.

LaGuardia's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck ( 1881-1962 ), and brother-in-law, Herman Gluck ( a Hungarian Jew whom she met while teaching English in Europe ), were living in Hungary and were arrested by the Gestapo on 7 June 1944, when the Nazis took control of Budapest.

LaGuardia insisted on levying the fine of ten dollars.

* 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.

* Rehov LaGuardia ( LaGuardia Street ) is a major road and the name of a highway interchange on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv.

* LaGuardia Commission, a study on the effects of marijuana in U. S. society

* 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.

The only traffic from LaGuardia during the closure was a single C-9C government VIP jet, departing at approximately 5: 15 p. m. on the 12 < sup > th </ sup >.

Realizing that they can't land all the passengers in 1939 at LaGuardia Airport, and low on fuel, the captain decides to keep trying to return " home " to 1961.

Early in September, while still in New York, he met with U. S. Army Air Forces Commanding General Henry H. Arnold on a runway at LaGuardia Airport.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is a high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue.

The 1980 dramatic film Fame was based on student life at the School of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School.

LaGuardia offers 21 different sports on the Varsity level.

In a Sunday radio address on January 24, Mayor LaGuardia suggested that bakeries that had their own bread-slicing machines should be allowed to continue to use them, and on January 26, 1943, a letter appeared in the New York Times from a distraught housewife:

In May 2008, on the way home from the " Joey Ramone Birthday Bash ", Chrome had a chance meeting at LaGuardia Airport with the members of Joan Jett's band The Blackhearts, including drummer Thommy Price, with whom he had played on Ronnie Spector's " Siren ".