NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
... additions to the national registry, along with part of the preservation board's explanations:1. Fiorello LaGuardia reading the comics (1945)Fiorello LaGuardia, the effervescent New York City mayor, regularly took to the radio to communicate directly with the citizens of the city. One of LaGuardia's most recounted acts as mayor was when he read the comics to the...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... University crowd that “All [semicolons] do is show that you’ve been to college.” New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s favorite put-down for egghead bureaucrats who got in his way was “semicolon boy.” And though semicolons have occasionally made news—tariff bills have imploded over their misplacement, and a 1927 execution hinged on the interpretation of a semicolon—the last writers...
Gotham Gazette: New York City News (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
... But more amazing is how well such varied peoples have gotten along for hundreds of years. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia created a Committee on Unity after some race riots in 1943, in order "to make New York City a place where people of all races and religions may work and live side by side in harmony and have mutual respect for each other, and where democracy is a living reality." Eventually,...
3hive (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
... — if you can't help but read, "And, say children, what does it all mean?" in the voice of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (even if you had no idea who you were imitating) you've been affected by Double Dee and Steinski. Steinski's musical "career" started much later than most; he was 32 years old when he created "The Payoff Mix" and didn't make any money from the record because it was comprised...
Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
... Secretary of State Cordell Hull even apologized to Hitler in 1938 after New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called him a “brown-shirted fanatic who is now menacing the peace of the world.” Roosevelt met with Joseph Stalin (at least twenty million victims) twice during the war, at Teheran in November 1943 and at Yalta in January 1945. He was accompanied by Winston Churchill. An...
Everything And Nothing (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
... the original cast recording of My Fair Lady also made the cut, as did broadcasts of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reading comics to children during a 1945 newspaper delivery strike. A recording of the first trans-Atlantic broadcast - an orchestral performance transmitted from London and relayed to the U.S. East Coast in 1925 - also was included because it represented a technological...
