Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith's defeat in 1928 was proof that these mixed assets were a liability. And even the success of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was due more to a fortuitous combination of these heterogeneous elements against Herbert Hoover and three years of Depression than to any real fusion of the various things that pass for Democracy in behalf of the winning candidate...
Frank J. Taylor, Tammany candidate for Controller of New York City defeated Joseph D. McGoldrick, Fusion candidate...
...greater friends than U. S. churches. But political or economic reform is not always synonymous with moral reform. Though the churches cheered the Roosevelt New Deal into office, they were grievously disappointed when the Administration sponsored Repeal. To a lesser degree New York City's New Deal-the Fusion administration headed by fretful, fiery Fiorello LaGuardia-was backed by the clergy. Last Week this support also proved a bitter disappointment to the churches. Mayor LaGuardia was playing with the idea of a full-blown, out-in-the-open, Municipal Lottery...
...fact that this issue has no live interest today, it has given him two unfortunate ideas. The first is that the new deal should not be discussed in any form during the campaign. The second is that the Republican Party nominate Samuel Seabury, an avowed new dealer, on the fusion ticket. The result would be to break down any vestiges of the G.O.P. which remain in New York...
...only militiaman to retain his command of a division throughout the War. His men selected for their divisional insignia a starry arm-patch supposed to represent the constellation Orion. Back home General O'Ryan returned to the law, took up commercial aviation, was boosted last year for Fusion Mayor of New York. As a reward for withdrawing his candidacy. Fusion Mayor LaGuardia made him the Biggest City's biggest policeman...