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| Fi⋅o⋅rel⋅lo H(enry) [fee-uh-rel-oh] , 1882–1947, U.S. lawyer, political reformer, and government administrator: mayor of New York City 1933–45. |
A political leader of the twentieth century. A beloved mayor of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s, La Guardia worked to free the city of corruption and began a great number of construction projects. La Guardia was called the “Little Flower” (fiorello is Italian for “little flower”).
Note: La Guardia is especially remembered for reading the comic strips from out-of-town newspapers over the radio during a newspaper strike in New York.
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