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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 a domineering leader who verged on authoritarianism but whose reform politics were carefully tailored to address the sentiments of his diverse constituency.
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 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.

LaGuardia and city's
By 1944, LaGuardia was frantically juggling the books to pay the city's bills.
LaGuardia pushed for Floyd Bennett Field to replace Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey as the city's de facto main air terminal, including designs and plans to shuttle passengers to and from Manhattan in flying boats.

LaGuardia and first
In 1941, during the run-up to American involvement in World War II, President Roosevelt appointed LaGuardia first director of the new Office of Civilian Defense ( OCD ).
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.
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.
Before this logo, LaGuardia used a flower with five petals, symbolizing the five boroughs of New York City ; and the first name of its namesake, Fiorello, which in Italian translates to " Little Flower.
Thomas in the first two episodes, and Corassa in the third ) and officially took up the role of experience that LaGuardia had vacated.
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.
Soon after starting her classes at LaGuardia, Keena played in her first role in a short film, " Burning Love ".
The Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York City remains the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States — the " Golden age of the flying boat.
Place first aroused the suspicion of law enforcement officers as he was standing in line at the Miami airport waiting to buy a ticket to New York's LaGuardia Airport.
" He said " when I first heard about it I thought, my God, it's Dryden all over again ... certainly if they had followed the recommendations in my report, the F28 crash at LaGuardia could have been averted.
The marriage was performed by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at Gracie Mansion, the first marriage to be enacted there.
However, with the notable exceptions of LaGuardia Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, many more US airports now have customs facilities compared to when the preclearance program first started in 1952.

LaGuardia and mayor
He once said that the " most hopeful accomplishment " of his administration as mayor was the creation of the High School of Music & Art in 1936, now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
* 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 ".
He was succeeded by Fiorello La Guardia ( 1 April to 31 December 1946 ), former mayor of New York-who later learned that that his sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, and other relatives had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.
Fiorello LaGuardia became mayor of New York City in 1931.
On June 24 – 25, 1937, a meeting of the Appeal faction's National Action Committee voted to ratched up the rhetoric against American Labor Party and Republican nominee for mayor of New York Fiorello LaGuardia, a favorite son of many in Socialist ranks, and to reestablish their newspaper, The Socialist Appeal.
Sam, whose face and figure were reportedly modeled after New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, started out as a stock villain but gradually softened into a genial, opportunistic comic foil.
After much debate over the merits of other sites within the city ( including Governors Island, the purported favorite of New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ), the site was approved.
LaGuardia is named after former Congressman and New York mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
In early 1940, the mayor convinced Casey to establish a school near LaGuardia airport, across the Grand Central Parkway.
New York was in dire need of a new airport by 1934 when Fiorello H. LaGuardia was elected mayor.
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 speakers that afternoon praised Moses and the LISPC, and mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia showed up late to give his congratulations.
is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican who took on Tammany Hall.

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