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...Widener and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney went to the races at Hialeah. The A. Atwater Kents entertained at dinner. The Chester Dales arrived. So did John Jacob Astor. So did the Edward F. Huttons. So did President Joseph Vincent McKee of New York City's Board of Aldermen. Joseph Hergesheimer was staying with James H. R. Cromwell. Arthur Somers Roche ate buffet dinner with Mrs. Dodge Sloane. Countess Edith di Zoppola visited the Harrison Williamses. The English nobility was represented by the Honorable Moya Beresford (great granddaughter of the late, notorious Jay Gould), the highly eligible Duke of Sutherland...
...collection of incorporated villages. In the consolidation of Greater New York, five boroughs were formed: Manhattan, The Bronx, Richmond (Staten Island), Brooklyn, Queens. Wasteful duplications of office resulted. New York City now has five "little Mayors" (borough presidents), five district attorneys, five sheriffs, an unwieldy Board of Aldermen (69 members). Its eight-man Board of Estimate can hamstring the Mayor at will. The present board has so notoriously scotched the economy program of Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent McKee and failed to economize by itself, that last week Acting Governor (elect) Herbert H. Lehman had to call a special Legislative session...
Without even the formality of an oath Mr. McKee automatically succeeded to the $40,000 job of Mayor from his $25.000 position as President of the Board of Aldermen. The first day he arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With...
...writes magazine articles under the name of James W. Dawson. A good Democrat, he is not a Tammany man. His political mentor is New York's Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and Roosevelt supporter. In 1925 he was first elected to head the Board of Aldermen. In 1929 he was re-elected with more votes than even Mayor Walker. Once he nearly broke up a Board of Estimate meeting by correcting a Tammany clerk who persisted in reading a petition for the Goethe Society as if it were spelled "goat." Mayor McKee is married...
...connection with the establishment of the Board of Taxicab Control. He suggested that had he really wished to graft from the Parmelee Company he could have gotten much more than $26,535 by failing to veto a proposal for higher cab fares, passed by the Board of Aldermen, which would have profited the organization $1.000.000 per year...