Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impy's victory was a stunning blow to Boss Flynn, who had engineered Mayor O'Dwyer's resignation in the ill-founded hope that a special city election might stir up a big enough straight Democratic vote to sweep the whole state. Big Jim Farley, out of favor since Flynn got control, had backed Impy. The new mayor, who promptly announced that he was going to go back to being a Democrat, swore that he would stay "unbossed and uncontrolled" and be "mayor for all the people...
Among those selected as the "best pajamaed males in the U.S. in 1950" (by pajama manufacturers): Vice President Alben Berkley, Dwight Eisenhower, Erroll Flynn, Ezzard Charles, Nelson Rockefeller, Leopold Stokowski...
...small football stadium seating 20,000, and a large, gray quonset hut-like structure high on the hill which houses the Holy Cross Athletic Association and six constantly-crammed basketball courts. While admitting that increased facilities would be very desirable, both Father O'Brien and Athletic Director Eugene F. Flynn explain that "nobody dies and leaves us a million...
...James Farley gained control of the Democratic Party from Boss Flynn...
Democratic Deals. Though the Hanley letter had been a windfall, the Democrats' moral outrage over political deals was something new considering their own maneuverings. Boss Ed Flynn, anxious to get a big New York City vote, had arranged a nice ambassadorship for Mayor William O'Dwyer, timed just right to require a Nov. 7 New York City election for his successor. And then when Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, a docile Tammanyite, had refused to get out of the way for Boss Flynn's candidate (Justice Ferdinand Pecora), Impellitteri had been offered a 14-year judgeship...