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...happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate Jeremiah T. Mahoney as it had in Fusionist LaGuardia...
Copeland, Senator from New York with whom he has long been on the outs, as a Democratic candidate for Mayor next autumn against the President's good friend, Socialist-Republican-Fusionist Fiorello LaGuardia. The President replied: "Ha! ha! ha!" When this was reported to New York's bumbling Senator, he cracked back: "I'm delighted if the idea gave him a chance to laugh. If he got enjoyment, that's fine. He needs it. As a health matter it's a good thing to laugh...
...World had been under the late great Joseph Pulitzer: New York's great, crusading, liberal newspaper. Last week there was cause for jubilation in Publisher Howard's orientally splendiferous sanctum. The paper's first great crusade, the New York mayoralty election, had been an unqualified success. Fusionist LaGuardia had been swept into office by a huge majority (see p. 16). Tammany's control of the municipal government had been smashed for the first time since the World helped John Purroy Mitchel smash it 20 years...
...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...
...bearing oratory was losing force, and his latest attempts at balancing the budget had revealed a dismaying lack of biceptual muscle, as well as nearly causing a village riot. In the next election it was all too possible that a revolt might swing the tide to Fiorello Laguardia, the Fusionist 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...