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Marine Hymn, The
Description
The show opens with Melchior performing the song "O, Holy Night." Throughout the program, the Mayor shares Bible passages in between the musical numbers. One of the pieces shared is "The Prayer For Children," which was composed by Archbishop Francis Spellman.
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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