Word: fiorello
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...chattered about a "plateau of permanent prosperity"--sound familiar? The men who wrote about business were either hacks in eyeshades or dandy dilettantes who looked like escapees from The Great Gatsby--or crooks. A couple of Journal columnists planted their bylines above stories prewritten by corporate flacks; crusading Congressman Fiorello La Guardia exposed them by producing the canceled checks that the writers had accepted...
DIED. JEROME WEIDMAN, 85, novelist and playwright who depicted Big Apple archetypes from fast-talking garmentos to frenetic politicians; in New York City. His works include the musical Fiorello!, about Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize...
...prototypical mayor-as-character from the past was Fiorello La Guardia, who was a symbol of the warmth and ebullience associated with New York Italians. Mayor Giuliani has said that he models himself on La Guardia. This must strike many New Yorkers as the equivalent of Kenneth Starr's saying that early in his life he decided to adopt the style and wit of John F. Kennedy: something got lost in the translation. (Those who believe in a just and vengeful God, as Starr apparently does, must have felt the heavens rumble when, around the time the Office...
...begin, here's a new flash: Tuesday was a very good day for Republicans. In heavily-Democratic New York City, Giuliani became the first Republican since Fiorello LaGuardia in 1937 to be re-elected mayor. Newcomer Vito Fossella's victory continued the GOP's hold on Molinari's seat (held by her father before her). Jim Gilmore maintained the Virginia Gubernatorial seat for Republicans with a 16-point victory over his Democratic rival. And, national GOP star Whitman managed to eke out a narrow and remain as New Jersey Governor for another four years...
...1920s. She liked caricature too. In the Cathedrals, the series of New York historical-satirical-puzzle pictures that she considered her crowning works, she uses cartoonish labels to sew the message together. In Cathedrals of Wall Street, 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt, the woman Stettheimer most admired, is seen with Fiorello La Guardia and a contingent of drum majorettes, Marine musicians and Salvation Army choristers belting out a hymn: New York, New Deal and capitalism resplendent in gold, all presided over by George Washington. You couldn't get more American than this, unless you were Norman Rockwell. One supposes that when Florine...