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...people milled for five hours, until in late afternoon Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's voice barked over a loudspeaker: "Go home ... or return to your jobs." Most of the people drifted away. The flags on the buildings, half-staffed for Franklin Roosevelt's death, fluttered limply...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York wired Mrs. Roosevelt, "It is the greatest loss the peace-loving people of the world have suffered in the entire war. The shock is so great that it is extremely difficult for any one to realize fully what has happened. There is only one thing we can do to pay adequate tribute to this war casualty-unite in carrying out his ideals for world justice and permanent peace...
...Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's furious duck of a mayor, did an unwitting disservice to Hugo LaGuardia, 17 (no kin), when Hugo was arrested for playing catch with a glass plate at Coney Island. Hugo paid a fine of $3 ($2 more than his pitching partner) because, as the judge put it: "Any man who has the family name of LaGuardia must be particularly careful of what he does...
Many a citizen wondered what was happening to Jimmy Byrnes's midnight curfew. Thousands guessed that the 12 o'clock closing order, already sidetracked in New York by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, would soon be completely derailed. But the mayor's attempt to keep Manhattan bars and night clubs open until 1 a.m. had the opposite effect...
...this, week, New York City's flamboyant, hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, who had jumped enthusiastically into enforcement of the Jimmy Byrnes "request," decided it was time to try something else. He announced that New York City's closing hour would be extended...