July 9, 1945 –

… dirty money always brings sorrow and sadness and misery and disgrace. Said by a man who never took a bribe.
During a newspaper strike, New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia read the daily comic strips aloud on WNYC radio on this date.

Co-incidentally or not, yesterday was the 99th anniversary of WNYC, which began as an AM radio station, 570 AM.
