Hey You Bums, We're Rootin' for You!
Mr. La Guardia just got back from traveling to sixteen different countries for UNRRA. He tells everyone what baseball games are happening in town today and shouts out, "Hey you Bums, we're rootin' for you!" He also talks about the truck drivers' strike and explains why the way La Guardia airfield is being run is good. This show is called a friendly chat between Mr. La Guardia and the regular people, and it comes straight from his house.
Fiorello Henry La Guardia was an American attorney and politician who served as the 100th mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1946. He previously represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1923 to 1933. He was known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive, rotund stature. A member of the Republican Party, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by parties other than his own, especially parties on the left under New York's electoral fusion laws. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him as the best big city mayor in American history.
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“Hey You Bums, We're Rootin' for You!.” Fiorello La Guardia. Radio broadcast, September 16, 1946.
