Mayoralty of Fiorello La Guardia

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Hereafter no funds shall be advanced to any authority, board or commission constituting an independent corporation or entity created for a specific project wholly within the confines of a municipality, any of the members of the governing body of which authority, board or commission holds any public office under said municipality. [59]

PWA Administrative General Order No. 129

Economic policy

New York City's budget under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia New York City budget under Fiorello La Guardia.png
New York City's budget under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia

New York City had a budget of $550,961,960.06 in 1935, a budget of $545,541,842 in 1936, a budget of $554,998,917.10 in 1937, a budget of $587,980,567 in 1938, a budget of $578,509,839 in 1939, a budget of $581,048,834.10 from 1940 to 1941, a budget of $573,740,594.13 from 1941 to 1942, a budget of $656,314,369 from 1942 to 1943, a budget of $753,071,123.40 from 1943 to 1944, a budget of $737,400,923 from 1944 to 1945, and a budget of $759,266,401.82 in 1945. [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68]

La Guardia inherited a $31 million budget deficit from Mayor O'Brien upon taking office and he reduced the deficit by $19 million during 1934. [69] He reduced spending through budget cuts and eliminating over 1,000 positions. [70] A lawsuit was filed regarding the 1938 budget of $589,980,567, which La Guardia was against, and the court ruled five to one in favor of retaining the budget and invalidating the lower budget proposed by La Guardia. [71]

La Guardia vetoed legislation which would have created an eight hour workday for members of the New York City Fire Department. [72] He supported legislation which would have created an eight hour workday for nurses. [73]

Foreign policy

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was a vice president of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights and supported boycotting German products Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 matchbook cover.jpg
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was a vice president of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights and supported boycotting German products

Prior to taking office La Guardia had participated in a rally to protest Nazi Germany's discrimination against Jews. While giving the keynote address at the American National Conference Against Racial Persecution in Germany he stated that Adolf Hitler was "a perverted maniac". After taking office as Mayor of New York City he supported a boycott of German products which was being organized by Jews in New York. [74]

Paul Marchandeau, the Mayor of Reims, France, and the head of the Association of the Mayors of France, visited New York City in 1934, and was greeted by La Guardia. [75]

James Clement Dunn, chief of the Division of Western European affairs in the United States Department of State, delivered an apology to Hans Thomsen, counselor of the German embassy in the United States, on behalf of the Department of State in regards to a statement made by La Guardia about Adolf Hitler. [76]

La Guardia served as one of the vice presidents of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights. [77] La Guardia and Allen Wardwell, the chairman of the Greater New York Campaign of Russian War Relief, announced Russian War Relief Week on June 20, 1942, in which they called for people to donate to buy medical supplies for the army of the Soviet Union fight the Nazis. [78]

He supported changing the name of Manhattan's Sixth Avenue to Avenue of the Americas, stating that it would be an expression of the "love and affection… for our sister republics of Central and South America". [79] La Guardia signed a bill to officially rename the avenue on October 2, 1945. [80] The move was criticized as "propaganda" by those who wanted to return to the original name. [79]

Housing policy

La Guardia created the New York City Housing Authority in 1934, and received up to $25 million in earmarked funding from the PWA. [81] [82] [83] From 1934 to 1943, fourteen low rent public housing projects, which housed 17,040 families, were built. [5]

In 1934, New York City had 17 square miles of slums, which 10 square miles of was "unfit for human habitation", which housed 516,000 families. [84] La Guardia announced that he would remove 67,000 tenement buildings which housed 650,000 people and constituted the slums of New York City. [85] In 1935, he asked for $150 million to $200 million in federal funding for low-rental housing projects in New York City and stated that it would cost $1,500,000,000 to properly house the 500,000 families currently living in sub-standard houses. [86] He later asked the state legislature in 1939, to lend $120 million to municipalities for housing programs, with $100 million going to New York City for the rehousing of 1,500,000 people living in sub-standard conditions. [87] In 1937, La Guardia was among two hundred mayors who wrote an open letter supporting the United States Conference of Mayors' slum clearance and rehousing plans and asked for the establishment of a permanent federal agency for slum clearance and low-rent housing programs. [88]

When the Castle Village was completed in 1939, it was dedicated by La Guardia who stated that it was a "magnificent housing unit, which will afford the sunshine, scenery and comforts of a millionaire's living quarters to those without a millionaire's income". [89] La Guardia signed a $6 million contract for the construction of the Riverton Houses by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944. [90]

Elections

1933

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David Dubinsky speaking at a La Guardia gathering

La Guardia had run for the Republican nomination in the 1921 mayoral election despite Samuel S. Koenig, the boss of the Republican Party in Manhattan, telling him "Don't do it, Fiorello. The town isn't ready for an Italian mayor." La Guardia lost to Henry Curran in the Republican primary and did not place first in any of the boroughs. La Guardia later ran in the 1929 mayoral election, but the leaders of the Republican Party chose to abstain from the election or gave their support to Mayor Jimmy Walker who defeated La Guardia and placed first in all sixty-two assembly districts. La Guardia lost reelection to the United States House of Representatives in the 1932 election against James J. Lanzetta, who was backed by Tammany Hall. He announced that he would run for the Republican nomination in the 1933 mayoral election. [3] [91] [6]

Mayor Walker resigned on September 1, 1932, following investigations into corruption by the Hofstadter Committee under the leadership of Samuel Seabury. La Guardia stated that "this is a great day for our country" after being told of Walker's resignation. O'Brien, another Tammany backed candidate, was elected to succeed Walker in the 1932 special election. The Fusion Conference Committee, a group of reformers and Republicans was formed to select a candidate to oppose Tammany Hall in the mayoral election. La Guardia sought their support, but they instead chose to give their support to O'Ryan after other candidates declined. La Guardia later defeated O'Ryan and his supporters during the nomination selection of the Republican Mayoralty Committee and gained the nominations of the Republican and City Fusion parties while O'Ryan withdrew from the election. [3]

La Guardia won the nomination of the Republican and City Fusion parties. [92] [93] He defeated O'Brien, former Mayor Joseph V. McKee, and other minor political candidates in the election with a plurality of the popular vote. [94] Tammany Hall had controlled the mayoralty for the past twelve years prior to La Guardia's victory. [5] It was the first time a fusion candidate had been elected mayor since John Purroy Mitchel's victory in the 1913 election. [3]

1937

La Guardia announced that he would seek reelection as Mayor of New York City in the 1937 election and he was opposed for the Republican nomination by Almbert Fairchild, Thomas J. Curran, and Charles G. Bond. [95] [96] All 475 delegates of the City Fusion Party voted unanimously to give their party's nomination to La Guardia, the American Labor Party voted unanimously to give its nomination to La Guardia, and he won the Republican primary. [97] [98] [99] [100] He had won the Republican nomination despite his support for President Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election. [3]

The Socialist Party initially selected to give its nomination to Norman Thomas, but he withdrew and the party endorsed La Guardia. [101] [102] He was endorsed by the Communist Party USA, but LaGuardia disavowed their support. [103] He defeated Jeremiah T. Mahoney, the Democratic nominee, with over 60% of the popular vote. [104] La Guardia was able to win the election due to his results from the American Labor ballot line. [105]

1941

La Guardia stated in 1939, that he would not seek reelection in the 1941 mayoral election. [106] However, he announced that he would seek reelection to a third term in 1941. [107] He defeated Democratic nominee William O'Dwyer while running on the ballot lines of the Republican, American Labor, City Fusion, and United City parties. [108] La Guardia's election victory made him the first mayor in New York City history to serve three terms. [109]

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