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...just the man with whom Tammany could challenge waspish, ebullient little Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1941. In a sense it was a personal feud. The Little Flower had heckled Democratic...
...MAKING OF AN INSURGENT (222 pp.)-Fiorello H. La Guardia-Lippin-cott...
...office and bawled: "Who wants to run for Congress?" It really didn't matter: the candidate didn't have a chance. A chunky little (5 ft. 2 in.) lawyer piped up: "I do." Someone said: "Hey, La Guardia, what's your first name? . . . Fiorello? Oh, hell, let's get someone whose name we can spell...
Jimmy Walker, a cynic in such matters, once quizzically asked La Guardia: "Fiorello, what are you in politics for, for love?" The Making of an Insurgent suggests that...
...York's Daily News noted that nearly three years after the late Fiorello La Guardia bullied his city council into renaming Sixth Avenue the "Avenue of the Americas," it was still Sixth Avenue in the vulgate of most New Yorkers...