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  Fiorello H. LaGuardia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LaGuardia was born in The Bronx to an Italian lapsed-Catholic father (Achille La Guardia) and an Italian mother of Jewish origin from Trieste (Irene Cohen Luzzato), and he was raised an Episcopalian (most Italian Americans that are not Roman Catholic tend to be Episcopalian because of its similarity to the Roman Catholic Church).
LaGuardia had remained Mayor of New York during this appointment, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1942 he was succeeded at the OCD by a full-time director, James M. Landis.
LaGuardia Airport, the smaller and older of New York's two international airports bears his name; the airport was voted the "greatest airport in the world" by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.
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 LaGuardia Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA) is an airport serving New York City, United States, 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LaGuardia_Airport   (1729 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LaGuardi.html   (452 words)

  
 Fiorello H. LaGuardia Biography
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (December 11, 1882 - September 20, 1947) was the Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945.
LaGuardia was elected mayor of New York City on an anti-corruption "fusion" ticket during the Great Depression.
LaGuardia is famous for, among other things, reading the comics on the radio during a newspaper strike, and pushing to have a commercial airport (Floyd Bennett Field, and later LaGuardia Airport) within city limits.
www.biographybase.com /biography/LaGuardia_Fiorello_H.html   (190 words)

  
 Fiorello H. LaGuardia Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
LaGuardia ran in 1933 on a broad-based Republican-fusion ticket, pledging to clean up city government and break the stranglehold of the Tammany machine.
www.fiorellolaguardia.lagcc.cuny.edu /laguardia/profile2.asp   (364 words)

  
 Laguardia, La Rioja - Wine Tours Spain
Laguardia is a medieval hill hamlet (called "villa" in Spanish), reminiscent of Tuscan hilltop villages.
Laguardia was founded in the year 1164 by King Sancho Abarca, and the spectacularly preserved wall dates back to the 15th century.
In 1486, Laguardia was incorporated into the Kingdom of the Catholic Monarchs (Isabel and Ferdinand), who would unite the kingdoms of Castille and Aragon in 1492, to form what is now "Spain", and the village was built on top of the existing village.
www.cellartours.com /spain/spanish-cities/laguardia.html   (1185 words)

  
 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.
LaGuardia was the director general for the UNRRA in 1946.
www.bookrags.com /Fiorello_H._LaGuardia   (1376 words)

  
 The LaGuardia myth Public Interest - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0377/is_154/ai_n6062435   (715 words)

  
 ActionScript-ToolBox: by Fiorello LaGuardia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (December 11, 1882–September 20, 1947) was the Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945.
LaGuardia was born in The Bronx and grew up in New York City and was educated at the New York University.
LaGuardia is famous for, among other things, reading the comics on the radio during a newspaper strike, and pushing to have a commercial airport (Floyd Bennett Field, and now LaGuardia Airport) within city limits.
www.actionscript-toolbox.com /quotes/author/Fiorello-LaGuardia.html   (356 words)

  
 Fiorello H. LaGuardia Foundation-Our Heritage
As three-term mayor of New York, LaGuardia was perhaps the greatest infrastructure builder in the history of the United States, making New York the international metropolis it is today.
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.
LaGuardia’s life-long international experience - the consular service, translating at Ellis Island, major in the Army Air Corps in Italy, and UNRRA director – provided the basis for his One World philosophy.
www.laguardiafoundation.org /who/heritage.htm   (235 words)

  
 Academe - LaGuardia Community College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LaGuardia was the third college and the first community college in the country to make work internships a degree requirement.
LaGuardia’s urban studies graduation requirement has remained a constant in an ever-shifting academic universe complicated by what often seem to be disparate, and somewhat deteriorating, goals.
It remains committed to its own blend of LaGuardia and Dewey—a vision of education that combines the traditional with the nontraditional, integrates the classroom with the outside world, strives to welcome and nurture all students, hallows education as the key to individual freedom, embraces its environs, and takes public service seriously.
www.aaup.org /publications/Academe/2002/02ja/02jarei.htm   (2266 words)

  
 LaGuardia Community College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
www.brevard.edu /fyc/instofexcellence/laguardia/narrative.htm   (1134 words)

  
 CNN.com - LaGuardia Christmas bombing remains unsolved 27 years later - Dec. 24, 2002
It was four days after Christmas in 1975, and LaGuardia was teeming with holiday travelers like Schimmel who were looking forward to ringing in the New Year with loved ones.
Almost a year before the LaGuardia bombing, the FALN claimed responsibility for the January 24, 1975, bombing that killed four and wounded 50 at New York's historic Fraunces Tavern.
As the months passed and the LaGuardia bombing task force's numbers dwindled, investigators were still wondering why no one claimed responsibility for what was obviously a terrorist act.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/12/24/ctv.laguardia   (2453 words)

  
 LaGuardia Community College
LaGuardia works to prepare students for a full life of work, service, and personal growth by helping each student acquire the academic, social, and professional knowledge needed to live effectively in an urban environment.
LaGuardia hosts two high schools on its campus in order to create educational opportunities for students who are at risk of dropping out.
LaGuardia Community College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA) to award the Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science, and Associate in Applied Technology degrees.
www.petersons.com /blackcolleges/profiles/laguardia.asp?sponsor=1714   (919 words)

  
 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.
www.insideschools.org /fs/school_profile.php?id=959   (1814 words)

  
 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.
LaGuardia secured a position with the US Consular Service in 1901 and served in Budapest, Trieste and Fiume, Hungar.
LaGuardia's efforts to rebuild Europe were cut short when, despite his best efforts UNRRA was disbanded at the end of December, 1946.
www.sicilianculture.com /people/laguardia.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Cheryl LaGuardia: E-Media Reviewer of the Year
LaGuardia initially created the electronic review column in 1992, after an article she wrote with Chuck Huber, “Digital Dreams: A CD-ROM User’s Wish List,” was published in Library Journal and caught the editor’s eye.
LaGuardia drew extensively on the resource of talented people at Harvard, and to date over 30 reviewers from the Harvard community, many of them from the Harvard College Library, contribute to the column on a regular basis, reviewing CD-ROMs offered in their field of expertise.
LaGuardia admits both her job and the column are a lot to juggle, but she is determined to carry on with both, possibly even adding another column that, she says, “I can’t really talk about yet.
hul.harvard.edu /publications/hul_notes_1296/articles/laguardia.html   (951 words)

  
 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.
Defeated for re-election in the Roosevelt landslide of 1932, LaGuardia successfully ran for mayor of the City of New York in 1933.
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.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/LaGuardia.html   (674 words)

  
 ePortfolio at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY
Many LaGuardia students begin depositing work in the ePortfolio in their first semesters at the college and continually refine their presentations as they move forward, each time looking to reflect on and understand the process of growth and improvement.
LaGuardia is a founding member of the national ePortfolio Research Coalition, together with institutions such as Stanford, Portland State, and Clemson Universities.
These courses, to be followed up in the second semester by a new pre-internship course in the Cooperative Education Department, Fundamentals of Professional Development, were designed to help students who need basic skills courses to move ahead to required courses in their majors, and to connect with a range of co-curricular events and services.
www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu /history.html   (1290 words)

  
 Fiorello Henry LaGuardia - former mayor of New York City
Fiorello LaGuardia was the mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945.
LaGuardia was born in The Bronx but spent most of his childhood in Prescott, Arizona.
LaGuardia was elected mayor of New York City on an anti-corruption "fusion" ticket during the Great Depression, which united him in an uneasy alliance with New York's liberal bluebloods.
www.dlife.com /dLife/do/ShowContent/inspiration_expert_advice/famous_people/laguardia.html   (478 words)

  
 The Slot Lottery at LaGuardia Airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An increase in travel delays that may be mitigated over time as passengers and airlines adjust their behavior and schedules in response to the delays.
At LaGuardia specifically, FAA estimated that if the slot rule were eliminated, average delays would increase by 9 minutes per flight.
While new airlines and small communities acknowledge that there is a serious delay problem at LaGuardia, they complain that the FAA’s approach to the problem singles them out and harms their interests while protecting the interests of the established airlines, larger communities, and the Port Authority.
house.gov /transportation/aviation/hearing/12-05-00/12-05-00memo.html   (2979 words)

  
 LaGuardia Airport Parking - Airport Shuttle - Discount Parking
A key to the transportation services infrastructure is the LaGuardia Airport parking system of short term and long term on airport parking facilities designed to provide rapid turnarounds for motorists seeking to move quickly and safely to their designated terminal.
LaGuardia Airport parking lots are designated by number via the directional signs which will appear as you travel along 94th Street or from Grand Central Parkway into the airport area.
LaGuardia Airport parking fees can be paid for with cash, or major credit card such as MasterCard or American Express, or by presentation of a valid airport parking coupon, issued by an authorized hotel or travel service firm, entitling the holder to discount airport parking while at LaGuardia Airport.
www.wise4living.com /tpark/la-guardia.htm   (653 words)

  
 LaGuardia, Fiorello Henry - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LaGuardia, Fiorello Henry, 1882-1947, U.S. public official, congressman, and mayor of New York City (1934-45), b.
Returning to New York City, he studied law while working (1907-10) in the U.S. immigration service, and was admitted (1910) to the bar.
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.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-laguardi.html   (491 words)

  
 CORRUPTION AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE - Colleges & Universities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LaGuardia's sordid history of firing instructors of extraordinary talent while tenuring and promoting incompetent cronies is a major cause of its demeaning reputation as "Crayola U." The chaos that passes for education is criminal.
LaGuardia's leaders demand mediocrity and obedience from an intimidated faculty and fear creativity and excellence as threats to their tenuous grip on power.
The reprehensible practice of political cronyism at LaGuardia is the primary reason for the existence of so many incompetent faculty and the consequent misery they bring to the lives of students.
www.laguardiacorruption.com /lagcorruption - !http://www.laguardiacorruption.com   (1627 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - FAA looks at fees to cut LaGuardia delays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Federal Aviation Administration is considering slapping new fees on airlines using New York's LaGuardia Airport and auctioning off access rights to further reduce delays at the most delay-prone airport in 2000.
LaGuardia had the sixth-worst record for late arrivals in April, says the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
The extension of the lottery that divvied up the takeoff and landing rights to reduce congestion last fall is not as controversial as some other proposals, but it, too, has critics.
www.usatoday.com /money/biztravel/2001-06-07-laguardia.htm   (521 words)

  
 LaGuardia Airport Hotels: New York LaGuardia International Airport - LGA Airport Guide
LaGuardia International Airport (LGA) handles over 20 million passengers a year for domestic flights and international connections to and from the Pacific Rim, Europe, and Latin America.
LaGuardia Airport is one of three airports serving New York, alongside JFK and Newark.
LaGuardia World Airport Guide provides you with access to a complete selection of New York airport hotels.
www.new-york-lga.com   (243 words)

  
 Representative Crowley: Issues: Local Projects: LaGuardia
LaGuardia Airport represents one of the greatest challenges in the Seventh Congressional District.
LaGuardia may not ever be a welcome neighbor, but we can work to make it a better neighbor.
The purpose of the Summit is to bring aviation industry experts, federal and local officials, and community activists together in a cooperative forum in an effort to solve the issues of mutual concern at LaGuardia Airport.
crowley.house.gov /issues/laguardia.htm   (280 words)

  
 Laguardia - Music Downloads - Online
The lineup solidified with the addition of Trip 66 drummer Greg Lyons, and soon Laguardia was a full-time operation.
After dalliances with a few major labels, Laguardia settled on Republic/Universal and began recording its debut with expert helmer Brad Wood.
Welcome to the Middle appeared in September 2003, and was supported by tours with the French Kicks and the Fire Theft.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/845/Laguardia/1022740.html   (118 words)

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