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1 day ago · 100 Years of WNYC. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia speaking over WNYC, March 23, 1940. The first WNYC broadcast took place on July 8, 1924. Today, LaFontaine Oliver, president and CEO of New York Public Radio, kicks off our centennial series, and Andy Lanset, director of archives for New York Public Radio, takes us through the station's history.
4 days ago · Vintage Photos: Mayor LaGuardia Sledgehammers Slot Machines in New York. diksha. Photo from the Library of Congress. A famous photograph of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sledgehammering slot machines ...
6 hours ago · In October 1939, he accepted Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's appointment to a 10-year term as a New York City parole commissioner (Gehrig had moved from New Rochelle to Riverdale to satisfy a residency requirement for the job) and was sworn into office on January 2, 1940.
4 days ago · The Great Depression was in full swing, and a campaign against burlesque by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia had shuttered Cohen’s former businesses and those of other music hall owners.
2 days ago · Fiorello La Guardia is inaugurated as mayor of New York – 1934; The U.S. Navy commissioned its first woman doctor, Mary Sproul – 1950; Kurt Waldheim inaugurated as Secretary General of the United Nations – 1972; John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, and John Mitchell were found guilty of obstructing justice in the Watergate Incident – 1975
1 day ago · : 2 In late 1941, mayor Fiorello La Guardia announced that the city had tentatively chosen a large area of marshland on Jamaica Bay, which included the Idlewild Golf Course as well as a summer hotel and a landing strip called the Jamaica Sea-Airport, for a new airfield.
4 days ago · Dewey was a celebrated public figure, working with former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to fight New York City’s large mafia presence as a Special Prosecutor.
