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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's elections (see p. 15) large and small, proved nothing if not that most of the voters who had gone to the polls had been more concerned with local issues than with national party lines. The President's vote-299th in his District-helped re-elect his friend Elmer Van Wagner by 275 votes...
...LaGuardia landslide, fully as sweeping as expected, had perhaps permanently changed the political landscape of the biggest city in the U. S. Candidate Mahoney's congratulatory telegram was sent from his headquarters at 9:15. 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...
...full-fledged party of its own. In its first appearance on the ballot, it justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober young Robert F. Wagner Jr.), besides a good share of delegates to New York's forthcoming constitutional convention...
Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...
Trouble between Messrs. Browning and Crump has long been brewing. The Crump organization that helped elect Governor Browning last year had previously, in 1934, helped defeat him for the U. S. Senate. Once in the Governor's seat, Gordon Browning promptly broke with his political benefactor by appointing Boss Crump's longtime adversary, Lewis S. Pope, special tax investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate...