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  Fiorello LaGuardia
LaGuardia was born in Greenwich Village in 1882 to Achille Luigi Carlo LaGuardia, a Catholic, and Irene Luzzato Coen, who had been raised in an observant Jewish home in Trieste.
When Fiorello LaGuardia was elected to Congress in 1922, the first bill he introduced called for the death penalty for "scavengers" who supplied tainted food to the military.
LaGuardia reasserted a Progressive’s faith in the rule of reason and the power of enlightened public opinion to face up to the Nazis and confront Hitler." When the U.S. entered the war in 1941, LaGuardia’s principled position was vindicated.
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  LAGUARDIA, FIORELLO HENRY. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LaGuardia went to Europe while still a youth, and was employed by the U.S. consulates in Hungary, Trieste, and Fiume.
He commanded (1917) U.S. air forces on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia was president (1920–21) of the New York City board of aldermen and returned (1923–33) to the House of Representatives, where he fought for numerous labor reforms and sponsored the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prohibited injunctions in labor disputes.
LaGuardia served (1946) as director of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
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 Fiorello H. LaGuardia Summary
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia December 11, 1882–September 20, 1947) was the Republican Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945.
LaGuardia was born in The Bronx to an Italian lapsed-Catholic father and a Hungarian mother of Jewish origin from Trieste, and he was raised an Episcopalian.
Fiorello returned to the U.S. to continue his education at New York University, and during this time he worked for New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Children and as a translator for the U.S. Immigration Service at Ellis Island (1907–1910).
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 Fiorello H. LaGuardia Collections
As a translator, LaGuardia called upon his knowledge of five languages to assist the new immigrants in their first steps to becoming US citizens.
According to the reminiscences of his second wife, Marie Fisher LaGuardia, Fiorello did not sit quietly during his freshman year in Congress as was expected of new Congressmen but energetically and enthusiastically took part in the everyday workings of the Legislature.
LaGuardia would remain in Congress continually until 1932, except for his service during World War I as a pilot and a term as President of the city Board of Aldermen.
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 laguardia airport - laguardia airport shuttle - laguardia airport transportation - limousine service laguardia airport ...
The initiative to develop the airport began with a verbal outburst by New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia upon the arrival of his TWA flight at Newark.
LaGuardia Airport is the official name of the airport according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the facility.
LaGuardia is the smallest of the New York area's three primary commercial airports, the other two of which are John F. Kennedy International Airport in southern Queens and Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
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 The religion of Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City mayor
LaGuardia had a long distinguished career in public service, beginning when he was 17 in the U.S. Consulate Service in Europe, where he became fluent in Yiddish, German, French and Italian.
LaGuardia was elected to Congress in 1916 on a Republican ticket, interrupting his term to serve as a decorated pilot on the Italian front in World War I (his plane was named the Congressional Limited).
LaGuardia's psychological effect on New York City was equally profound, restoring faith in city government by demanding excellence from civil servants.
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 Sicilian Culture: The People: Fiorello LaGuardia
LaGuardia was born on December 11, 1882, to Achille Lugi LaGuardia, an Italian immigrant, who would serve as a band master in the US Army, and Irene Cohen a Jewish immigrant from Austria-Hungary.
According to the reminisces of his second wife, Marie Fisher LaGuardia, Fiorello did not sit quietly during his freshman year in Congress as was expected of new Congressmen but energetically and enthusiastically took part in the everyday workings of the Legislature.
LaGuardia's efforts to rebuild Europe were cut short when, despite his best efforts UNRRA was disbanded at the end of December, 1946.
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 Giuliani and LaGuardia: A Dubious Comparison
LaGuardia was a New Dealer before, during and after the New Deal; he believed government should help poor and working people; he and the Democrats expanded social welfare.
LaGuardia was a member of the left wing of the American Labor Party and was supported at different times by a wide array of political forces ranging from Communists to Republicans.
LaGuardia’s reaction to the Harlem riots of 1935 and 1943 is an indicator of his policies with respect to fls.
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 Fiorello!
Fiorello, (Little Flower) is the short, dumpy, gruff-voiced, dynamic, colourful, provocative and yet thoroughly honest politician that was Fiorello LaGuardia.
Fiorello joins the workers of Nifty Shirtwaists, who are on strike, and convinces them to desert their picket lines and join him at his headquarters to discuss election tactics.
Fiorello is married to Thea who is seriously ill. He is still a political reformer and decides to run for mayor against the current incumbent, James J. Walker.
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 Fiorello Henry LaGuardia - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LaGuardia, Fiorello Henry, 1882-1947, U.S. public official, congressman, and mayor of New York City (1934-45), b.
He commanded (1917) U.S. air forces on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia was president (1920-21) of the New York City board of aldermen and returned (1923-33) to the House of Representatives, where he fought for numerous labor reforms and sponsored the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prohibited injunctions in labor disputes.
LaGuardia served (1946) as director of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
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 Fiorello LaGuardia
Colorful New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was born in New York City in 1882.
In 1933 he was elected on a fusion ticket to replace the corrupt Jimmy Walker as mayor of New York.
Laguardia cleaned up New York government and was renowned for his hard work and great energy.
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 Laguardia Fiorello Henry: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
LaGuardia went to Europe while still a youth, and was employed by the U.S. consulates in Hungary, Trieste, and Fiume.
LaGuardia served (1946) as director of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
...Kross recalls that LaGuardia was one of the few...luminaries as William Henry Baldwin, Jr., President...OF" NEW YORK: MAYOR FIORELLO LAGUARDIA 138 (2002); MURTAGH...at 146.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Fiorello   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LaGuardia went to Europe while still a youth, and was employed by the U.S. Fiorello H(enry) La Guardia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia...
Entering politics as a supporter of Fiorello H. LaGuardia, he was active in local politics before his election (1946) as a...
NEW YORK (AP) - During the Great Depression, New York's Ebullient Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia Dubbed the Popular Marble Lions That Frame the Steps of the City's Main Library Patience and Fortitude -- a Reference to the Strengths the City's Denizens Would Need to Summon to Survive the Economic Tumult.
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 The LaGuardia myth Public Interest - Find Articles
LaGuardia rescued New York from the 50-year rule of Tammany Hall, which he described as an "army of parasites fattening at the trough of the city treasury." Thanks to Roosevelt's federal subventions, he fended off the Depression's worst moments through a massive and largely successful public-works program.
LaGuardia's administration obscured the extraordinary achievements of the earlier, self-sufficient city that made itself into the commercial hub of the United States.
LaGuardia often talked of "efficient scientific government," and his bargain with Roosevelt enabled the mayor to showcase the New Deal approach to government.
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 H.S. 485 Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts
LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts is a highly selective, widely acclaimed school that trains students for the country's best art schools and music conservatories, as well as for conventional academic colleges and universities.
LaGuardia is on the list of 209 schools that the chancellor exempted from the citywide uniform curriculum.
She believes she was "labeled" because of her "accent and background," and says rewards at school only went to "teachers pets": "Out of a graduating drama class of about 90, there were only 6 real parts to audition for" at the end-of-the-year show.
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LaGuardia’s father was a U.S. Army bandmaster and he moved his family to Europe.
Fiorello worked in US Consulates at age 17 in such cities as Budapest and Trieste.
In 1914, LaGuardia became New York State's deputy attorney general and by 1916 he was elected to the US House of Representatives.
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 The LaGuardia myth Public Interest - Find Articles
LaGuardia, both as mayor and in memory, has been the beneficiary of an enduring case of mistaken identity.
As a half-Italian, half-Jewish Episcopalian, LaGuardia was sometimes described as a "one man balanced ticket." Usually considered the consummate New Yorker, LaGuardia did not settle there until the age of 24.
LaGuardia fashioned a successful coalition between good-government reformers and the immigrant poor by putting government efficiency in the service of the poor.
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 LaGuardia Airport at AllExperts
LaGuardia Airport is an airport serving New York City, located on the waterfront of Flushing in the borough of Queens.
LaGuardia is the smallest of the New York area's three primary commercial airports, the other two of which are John F. Kennedy International Airport in southern Queens and Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
Although LaGuardia was a very large airport for the era in which it was built, it soon became too small for the amount of air traffic it had to handle.
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 LaGuardia Community College   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College, located in Western Queens, New York, was established as a branch of the City University of New York (CUNY) to provide access to higher education for the city's historically under-served populations.
LaGuardia’s initial efforts at developing first year programs were in the area of learning communities for freshman; indeed, the College has a long history and national reputation in this field.
Best practices in successful first-year experience programs include the creation of common, shared experiences, particularly intellectual experiences, that set an academic tone and expectations for students, as well as create a greater sense of community and connectedness to the institution, which is of particular importance for a commuter college.
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 Fiorello Henry LaGuardia - former mayor of New York City
According to modern historians, LaGuardia is considered one of New York City's greatest mayors because of his role in leading New York during the Great Depression.
LaGuardia was born in The Bronx but spent most of his childhood in Prescott, Arizona.
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts and LaGuardia Community College are also named for him.
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 The Epoch Times | History Remembers…Reform Mayor Fiorello Laguardia
The son of an Italian immigrant, Fiorello Laguardia would guide New York City during the Great Depression and initiate reforms to combat poverty and rebuild a decaying infrastructure, laying the ground work for today’s New York City.
Affectionately known as Little Flower, Laguardia was one of the stormiest and most colorful American political figures in history.
Laguardia, one of the most dynamic political reformers during the 30’s, the fearless little man with progressive ideas, died on September 22, 1945, of cancer.
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 Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His involvement with Civil Defense was by all accounts enthusiastic and sincere, but on the national level he did not mesh well in style or doctrine with his deputy Eleanor Roosevelt, who appears to have played a significant part in engineering his removal in favor of James Landis in 1942.
Roosevelt's criticism of LaGuardia centered around his supposed lack of capability to administer a large national program, his failure to involve volunteers, and a lack of enthusiasm for social welfare, women's mobilization, cultural, and physical fitness programs under the Civil Defense name.
Fiorello LaGuardia was born in New York City of immigrant parents and raised in the Southwest.
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 LaGuardia Airport
Located on the waterfront in the Borough of Queens, New York City and only 9 miles from Midtown Manhattan, LaGuardia handles mostly domestic flights.
It is named after Fiorello LaGuardia, the former mayor of New York.
Convenient, economical, door-to-door share-ride van service each-way between LaGuardia Airport and hotels in Manhattan.
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 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Fiorello La Guardia Legend
New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia once took over a courtroom and charged everyone present 50¢ to pay the fine of an old woman accused of shoplifting a loaf of bread.
LaGuardia dismissed the judge for the evening and took over the bench himself.
Mayor LaGuardia, the present incumbent, rates a whole book for himself, but as long as he's mayor of the town we all work in, I'd better be careful.
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 New York 1929- 1941   (Site not responding. Last check: )
n Fiorello LaGuardia was born on December 11, 1882 in New York City.
LaGuardia established himself as an honest man and supported the New Deal.
LaGuardia  became director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
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For those whom the name LaGuardia means more than a NY Airport, many are yet surprised to hear that the former mayor had a Jewish mother, and even more are surprised to learn that his sister was interned by the Nazis in a concentration camp.
Among New Yorkers for whom the name LaGuardia means more than an airport, many are still surprised to hear that the former mayor had a Jewish mother, and even more are surprised to learn that his sister was interned by the Nazis in a concentration camp.
Two months earlier, Mayor LaGuardia, who was outspoken in condemning the Nazis and predicting their downfall, led a mass demonstration of Polish Jews on the steps of City Hall commemorating the first anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
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 Fiorello H. LaGuardia Foundation-Our Heritage
The LaGuardia Foundation brings modern, sustainable infrastructures to rural communities in Brazil, China, and India.
Perhaps the only activity on which LaGuardia spent more time than infrastructure building was on defending the "little guy" from the "high and mighty." He was a tireless champion of the poor, the disenfranchised, and immigrants.
The LaGuardia Foundation mobilizes resources - human, financial, and institutional - to give the less fortunate in other countries the opportunity to construct secure and dignified lives.
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