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In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved the building that would become New York City Center from the wrecking ball.
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In other words, the mayor discovered that there's room for personal growth behind Fiorello La Guardia's desk in city hall.
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"As Fiorello LaGuardia would say, when I make a mistake, it's a beaut, " Starr said of the controversy surrounding the appointment.
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Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Fiorello LaGuardia: The mayors of New York City have long been men with outsize personalities and strong personal brands.
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The story goes that Civic Virtue's original home beginning in 1922 was fronting City Hall in Manhattan until then-Mayor Fiorello La Guardia got sick of being mooned every day.
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Fiorello's Roman Cafe -- Fine Italian fare near Lincoln Center.
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The book's flaws aside, though, this "Fiorello!"
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Roosevelt, New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis, and the novelist Pearl Buck, who'd won the Nobel Prize in 1938 and whose picture he copied from the jacket of one of her bestsellers.
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One of the curiosities of "Fiorello!"
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But Mr Giuliani, the first Republican to win a second term since Fiorello La Guardia in 1937, has also proved a surprisingly subtle ethnic politician co-opting or bullying most of the pieces of New York's ethnic mosaic into a more supportive shape.
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