La Guardia, Fiorello
[ (fee-uh-rel-oh luh gwahr-dee-uh) ]
A political leader of the twentieth century. A beloved mayor of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s, La Guardia worked to free the city of corruption and began a great number of construction projects. La Guardia was called the “Little Flower” (fiorello is Italian for “little flower”).
Notes for La Guardia, Fiorello
La Guardia is especially remembered for reading the comic strips from out-of-town newspapers over the radio during a newspaper strike in New York.
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