Friday, December 20, 2024

Fiorello La Guardia, a balanced ticket

From Robert Caro’s The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974). Fiorello La Guardia was running for mayor:

La Guardia possessed qualifications for making the run beyond the fact that, half Jewish and half Italian, married first to a Catholic and then to a Lutheran of German descent, himself a Mason and an Episcopalian, he was practically a balanced ticket all by himself.
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comments: 2

Daughter Number Three said...

I'm enjoying the process of finding out what sentences you feel moved to share!

Michael Leddy said...

Many more queued up. I had to second-guess the spelling there.