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Furiously to his feet leaped Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") La Guardia of New York, many of whose constituents are known to their neighbors as "wops." Valiantly he fought and triumphantly he won for the discovery of America by "Eyetalian" Columbus. The teething Congress, scared as a babe at whom someone cries "Boo!" passed the $50,000 appropriation for Leif Ericson's statue without hailing him as Discoverer.
In Iceland several families have documentary evidence to prove that they are descendants of "the first European born on American soil," famed Snorri (begotten by one of Leif Ericson's men), who later became eminent in the Iceland of six centuries before the Mayflower.