Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most amazing statements put out in the current political campaign in New York City is the assertion by Judge Mahoney that Mayor LaGuardia has destroyed the morale of the Police Department and allowed the administration of justice to sink to a low ebb. Aside from the fact that it is amusing to hear a Tammany candidate crying out for justice over privilege, and honesty over corruption, this statement focuses serious attention on the District Attorney's office, for it is there that the enforcement of all laws in the City begins. And it is there, where a lone Tammany stalwart...
Unlike the political sham-battle now raging on Beacon Hill, where hardly a single candidate can be found who combines honesty with great ability, the current mayoralty campaign in New York City sees for the first time in a generation the forces of corruption arrayed in a clean-cut warfare with those who are in favor of honest municipal government. The incumbers mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, backed by the Republican, Fusion, and American Labor parties in the city, has managed the affairs of the nation's greatest city with such honesty and vision in the last four years that, although...
...hardships in the last half decade. It was tragic to have their popular leader Jimmy Walker quit the country under fire on the heels of the Seabury investigation of municipal vice and corruption in 192, and it was even harder to stomach the interference from Washington in the 1933 campaign, when an administration candidate, Joseph 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...
Candidate LaGuardia thought the M. O. T.'s treatment of his life & times was "all right." Impartial observers thought it was a masterly if unconscious campaign document. Tammany did not go on record with any sentiments, but after the film had played a week to 150,000 people at the Music Hall, the management deemed it advisable to substitute a Mickey Mouse cartoon for the M. O. T. during the second week of the current feature's (Stage Door) run. Thus the potential number of voters who might be drawn into the Mayor's camp...
...appointed as general drive chairman Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., as national alumni committee head Equitable Life's President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson. Then he hired the John Price Jones money-raising organization, which started a year ago approaching Penn's 55.000 alumni. By this week, when the campaign formally opened, $1,000,000 of the $12,500,000 had already been raised. To take three years, the drive is timed to culminate in the University's bicentennial celebration...