La Guardia

[luh gwahr-dee-uh]

noun

1. Fiorello H(enry) 1882–1947, U.S. lawyer, political reformer, and government administrator: mayor of New York City 1933–45.

La Guardia

/ ləˈɡwɑːdɪə /

noun

1. Fiorello H ( enry ) (ˌfɪəˈrɛləʊ). 1882–1947, US politician. As mayor of New York (1933–45), he organized slum-clearance and labour safeguard schemes and suppressed racketeering

Example Sentences

Departures to John F Kennedy International, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, and La Guardia were delayed by nearly three hours, over 2.5 hours, and about an hour, respectively, the FAA reported as of Saturday afternoon.

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In 1941, the lack of adequate child care prompted the administration of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to fund a handful of already existing nursery schools, including the New Deal nurseries whose federal funding had dried up.

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Nothing indicates that he is capable of managing a $110 billion budget, of steering 300,000 municipal employees—in short, of running the state within a state that is the city of Fiorello La Guardia, Ed Koch and Michael Bloomberg.

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Looming large among them all is the pint-size, omnipresent, ferociously liberal and hyperpatriotic mayor, Fiorello La Guardia.

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A chapter on the maneuvering that led to La Guardia’s third term illustrates Mr. Wallace’s method.

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