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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THE PHILIPPINES: Fiorello in Manila
He was the first Manila mayor ever elected to a third term ... Arsenio Lacson reminds many Americans of Manhattan’s rambunctious Fiorello La Guardia, who also served three terms.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN5d
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 ...
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NEW YORK: He Called Me a Guinea
And there is James M. Kieran, moody, outspoken, firm in his leftish ways, who until last week was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s press secretary at $5,400 per year. Last week hot-tempered Mayor ...
Washington Monthly12d
Donald Trump’s Imperialist Fantasy
His predations toward Canada, Panama, and Denmark can’t work. But Woodrow Wilson showed how to pick up territory the smart ...
New York Post18d
How New York’s YIVO Institute is keeping Yiddish culture alive
New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia examining a copy of the Yiddish newspaper, Der Tog in 1944. Despite his Italian name, La Guardia was a rapt Yiddish speaker. Courtesy of YIVO Institute ...
Ars Technica17d
Meet the man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive
It was banned or restricted in many municipalities. New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's goons dragged hundreds of games out of businesses and smashed them in the streets in the 1940s ...