THE MAYOR AND THE LITTLE OLD LADY - 1935

A story about an incident in the life of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City in 1935, and how it directly pertains to the people of the U.S., right now, in 2018.

HISTORICAL REFERENCES:

Manning, Brennan, The Ragamuffin Gospel (2008).

Cerf, Bennett, Try and Stop Me (1944), p. 268-269.

McCullough, Donald, Say Please, Say Thank You: The Respect We Owe One Another (1999), p. 159-160.

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Narrator (Featured Story) - Scott Ennis of Stories of Yore Podcast.

Host Intro – Nina Innsted , the host of the Already Gone podcast.

Outro Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren of Forgotten News Podcast and Whispered True Stories Podcast.

MUSIC:

Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0

At Rest

I Knew A Guy

The Curtain Rises

Public Domain

The Land Is Your Land (ukulele instrumental) - Capotastomusic.

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Applause

OUTRO APHORISM:

Mencken, H.L., Notes on Democracy (1926) (slight paraphrase of original sentence). Often mis-attributed to the late Gov. Alfred E. ("Al") Smith of New York.

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