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...Shortly thereafter telegrams went to the rest of the Fusion ticket, District Attorney-Elect Thomas E. Dewey, Comptroller-Elect Joseph D. McGoldrick, and Newbold Morris, elected president of the New City Council whose members were chosen by proportional representation to replace the old Tammany-controlled Board of Aldermen. All could have been dispatched much earlier. At 10:30 rooters demonstrating outside the Mayor's house were informed that the Mayor, his wife, his daughter Jean and son Eric had already gone to bed. A little later theatre crowds were able to hear and cheer the final unofficial figures: LaGuardia...
...McKee split the ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final fruit of Judge Seabury's investigations, doing away with the great Tammany stronghold, the Board of Aldermen, in favor of a City Council, and setting up a system of proportional representation, so that no one party could in future gain complete domination of the Citys finances and control...
...York, Franklin Roosevelt, with his eye on the Presidency was obliged to investigate charges of graft and corruption against Tammany's dapper, wisecracking mayor, Jimmy Walker. When the hearing got too hot, Jimmy Walker resigned. Automatically Joseph V. McKee, president of the city's Board of Aldermen succeeded to the job and made motions of starting a cleanup. Then & there the current overlord of Tammany, Boss John Curry, made a mistake. Instead of nominating McKee for a special election to fill Walker's place, he chose a Tammany wheelhorse, Surrogate Judge John P. O'Brien...
...House was a complete sell-out for both shows . . . gross hitting approximately $2,750 ... an all-time high. Audience included the Secretary of the Public Morality Council and members of the London County Council [aldermen] with the stripper proving the most-dressed representative of her clan ever seen. . . . "C. B. Cochrane opened his new Trocadero cabaret revue the same night. Entitled 'Eve in the Park,' show features a nude girl enclosed in a huge glass shower-bath, stepping out and dressing from skin to outer garments. Artistic and alluring, the twist went over nicely...
...decade and a half slipped by, at the end of which he received the appointment of Comptroller of Customs on wools, hides, and woll-fells in the port of London. By grant of the mayor and aldermen he occupied an entire dwelling on top of Aldsgate, ten minutes' walk from the quay known as Wool wharf where he worked over dull figures in heavy ledgers. Here at the eastern edge of turbulent little London, high over a busy street, and above his modestly-stocked buttery, the poet passed another decade--reading, writing, and drinking from the King's daily pitcher...