Radio Index
Patience and Fortitude
Description
The mayor talks about several important topics affecting the community. He discusses what's happening in New York State politics and brings up issues with real estate taxes. He also mentions how much food costs these days. The mayor shares information about Victory Gardens and lets people know about upcoming tests of the air raid siren system. He announces that baseball season is starting soon. Finally, he pays respect to Millicent Baum, a school teacher who recently passed away.
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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