Every Sunday afternoon, over Manhattan’s city-operated radio station WNYC, Mayor Fiorello (“Lippy”) LaGuardia speaks “nonpolitically” to his seven and a half million charges, exhorting ...

Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia announced a plan to relieve the congestion at what would become LaGuardia Airport in New York. They converted some swampland at the edge of the city, in Jamaica, Queens, into ...

As it must to all reformers, a severe trial of patience came last week to New York City’s busybody Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The Mayor was determined to be wartime guardian of his voters ...

Harris has already corresponded with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York who is the national director of civilian defense activities in America and it is understood that Mayor LaGuardia has ...

The airport was named after New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who served three terms from 1933 to 1945. LaGuardia's bad reputation eventually began around the 2000s, and by 2014, the airport was ...

in 1926 -- New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1882 -- Football Hall of Fame member Doc Blanchard in 1924 -- Actor Rita Moreno in 1931 (age 93) ...

In 1959, the musical "Fiorello!" starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opened on Broadway. • In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of ...