Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With New York City's most turbulent Mayoral election in 20 years only eight days away, last week the semi-final results of the Literary Digest's straw poll stood: Fusion Candidate Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, 217,599; Recovery Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee, 169,715; Tammany's Candidate, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, 51,562. Undoubtedly Candidate LaGuardia had drawn ahead for a while in the preceding fortnight but other, more up-to-date straw-voting persuaded Wall Street betters to reinstate McKee last week-end as the favorite at even money, with odds against LaGuardia...
...city sink lower under an increasing load of stupidity and incompetence and when an arrogant leadership asked the citizens of this city to put its stamp of approval on such a record, resentment became widespread and deepseated. . . . To whom could they turn? To the candidate named by the Fusion group? His record is the answer to that question. No one can have any confidence in him because his whole record has been a record of opportunism, instability and explosiveness unparalleled in politics...
...Equitable Bus franchise deal, a flagrant piece of grafting which did more than anything else to oust Mayor Walker (TIME, June 6, 1932), McKee did later vote for the franchise to be granted. "Actions," taunted Candidate LaGuardia, "speak louder than words." At this point Samuel Seabury, patron saint of Fusion, chimed in: "They're mak-ing a primary out of an election. Fusion nominated a ticket so good and so strong that its mere nominations caused the Curry machine to crumble and broke Tammany's back. What happened then? They changed the name of the Tammany candidate from...
...Times, Herald Tribune, World-Telegram and Post joined battle for Fusion. The Daily News, Sun and Hearst-papers did yeoman service for Recovery. As the whooping & slamming grew noisier, old Mayor O'Brien felt more and more like a political wallflower. Nobody paid any attention...
...race, the nucleus of his support was Democratic votes taken back from LaGuardia, plus defections from Tammany. Last week there were signs that he would get a lot of Republican votes too. The city's leading G. O. Partisans like Ruth Pratt and Ogden Mills were siding with Fusion against all "bossism," in accordance with the party...