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The Ridiculous Reason Why the U.S. Enacted a Wartime Ban on Sliced Bread Sales—and Why It Didn’t Last Long
Designed to keep prices low and conserve wax paper, the ban, enacted on this day in 1943, only succeeded in making Americans ...
Woodland Park's first woman mayor, Mary Zaccaria, remembered as compassionate educator
Mary Zaccaria served one term as mayor of Woodland Park after her husband, Frank, a Republican, died two days after assuming ...
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NEW YORK: Pilgrim’s Progress
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 ...
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Radio: Little Flower to ABC
One of New York’s liveliest and most unpredictable radio shows has been Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s Talk to the People. Every Sunday afternoon since 1941, over city-owned WNYC, the Little ...
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NYC's LaGuardia Airport jumps from worst-ranked to best after $8BILLION upgrade, survey finds
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 ...
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17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making (1945)
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia does his part by reading aloud the Dick Tracy comic strip on the radio.