Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national implications of the McKee candidacy were clear. James Aloysius Parley, the Democracy's New York State as well as national chairman, had spent two days in the city prior to Mr. McKee's fateful announcement. He had been closeted with Edward Joseph Flynn, New York's Secretary of State, Democratic ruler of The Bronx, Mr. McKee's next door neighbor and political mentor and the sole wedge by which the Farley-Roosevelt State machine might dislodge Tammany from control of the city. The night before Mr. McKee declared himself, reporters found little pucker-faced Louis...
...adjoining those of Mayor O'Brien, began figuring ways & means to work the three new district leaders into the Hall. What did worry Boss Curry, and Fusionist La Guardia, too, was a trip which Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn made to Washington to see Postmaster General Farley, who is the Democracy's New York state as well as national chairman. Mr. Flynn is Democratic boss of The Bronx, represents the national party organization in New York City, has received most of the Federal patronage and dislikes Tammany. Unenthusiastic over Mayor O'Brien's showing...
...contender. If this occurred, the Tammany wigwam was likely to do a sizeable amount of starving in the ensuing months. It is a saying which Pollux is fond of repeating, "that necessity is the mother of invention." And so it proved to be. Before another moon had passed Sachems Flynn and Curry had acted, Holy Joe McKee was designated to enter the campaign as a third major candidate, and the Wigwam became its cheery old self, confident that confusion had been thrown into the ranks of its enemies, and the election of Chief O'Brien assured. The tent was warm...
...George Flynn of Texas Petroleum Co. was stabbed in his home in Mukden by Manchurian bandits last week...
Tunney. Seven U. S. millionaires composed party number one, headed by Wall Street's bear speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith. They included Bernard F. Gimbel, head of Manhattan's Gimbel's; Donald M. Smith, broker (no relation) ; F. S. Argnimbau; Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of The Bronx and backer of Franklin Roosevelt; Eddie Dowling, comedian; James Joseph Tunney, financier-sportsman...