That man was Fiorello “The Little Flower” La Guardia, the 99th in a mixed bag of now 110 mayors of New York. Among La Guardia’s other accomplishments, he’s the only New York mayor ever to ...

Fiorello (“Little Flower”) Henry LaGuardia, Protestant, New York-born son of an Italian father ... plumped for Roosevelt and Governor Lehman last autumn, may be able to command this year ...

As New York City threw off the shackles of Tammany Hall and Mayor Jimmy Walker resigned in 1932, it was Fiorello La Guardia who stepped into office in 1934 intent on cleaning up the mess. One of his ...

By running a campaign in the La Guardia tradition, the insurgent New York mayoral candidate is closing the gap with Andrew ...

My earliest memory of the legacy of Fiorello ... LaGuardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters.” LaGuardia’s record in office as congressman and later mayor of New York was ...

A native of New York City, son of Italian immigrants, FIORELLO H. LA GUARDIA spent his boyhood in ... Werner, will be published by Lippincott in May.

Thrice during the past fortnight. New York’s bantam Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia addressed himself to Protestants on religious matters. As a guest of the annual Episcopal diocesan convention ...

In reviewing “I Never Did Like Politics” by Terry Golway (Bookshelf, Feb. 20), Edward Kosner writes that Fiorello La Guardia, the former mayor of New York ... He may have done so, but ...