Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, New York City's bouncing Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick last week boasted that in five years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens Budget Commission looked at his figures, said he must have meant $125,664,347. So he did, replied Mr. McGoldrick, confessing a $200,000,000 error...
...Kenneth Simpson, the one Republican leader who, all the time that Uncle Bim was really believed to be washed up, was actually making headway in Manhattan. To him was due large credit for the final smashing to Tammany last year with the Fusion ticket, led by explosive, progressive Fiorello LaGuardia. It was Kenneth Simpson who groomed the advertising profession's gift to politics, Representative Bruce Barton. And Simpson it was who had so very nearly overturned the strong, widely respected regime of Governor Herbert Lehman with the G. O. P.'s most dazzling rookie of the decade, District...
...University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From his PWA the city has received $60,000,000 for a new sewer system, $8,000,000 (last week...
...high point in the current craze among dance bands to make swing versions of popular classics is reached in the adaptation by Larry Clinton of Debussy's "Reverie." So perfect a fusion of so-called classic and modern elements has been made in this piece that as far as the fad is concerned, here is an apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year...
...Republican, he is friendly with both Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration in New York City and the Democratic State administration, both of which he serves (as president of the Long Island State Park Commission and City Park Commissioner). No friend, however, of Franklin Roosevelt and Harold Ickes with whose money he built the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Moses is a favorite with Greater New Yorkers. In the last 17 years he has, almost singlehanded, obtained for them more and better parks and parkways than they had obtained in 50 years previous...