Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring Mr. McKee made no effort to have his name entered in the Democratic primaries voted last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 2). He preferred to retire to a $50,000-a-year bank job. He was offered the top place on a Fusion ticket to oust Tammany from the City Hall in next month's elections. Like Caesar, Joseph McKee for the third time waved away his honors. It therefore surprised many of his fellow citizens, disgusted many more, and dismayed both Fusion and Tammany when, last week, after a fortnight's indecision culminating in a 48-hour...
...candidate for Mayor. . . . One and all protested against a leadership that has shattered the city's credit and made the people of this city bow their heads - an arrogant leadership of stupidity and corruption, unmatched since the days of Boss Tweed. . . . There is no real Fusion in this campaign. The so-called Fusion standard bearer is as objectionable to the solid element of our Republican citizenry as he is to the vast army of Democrats who are disgusted with machine politics. ... As Mayor, I shall be absolutely free from political domination by any leader or any set of leaders...
...polls last week to vote in a primary election. One hoodlum was shot to death, a score were slugged and when the ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation's No. 1 city been so thoroughly scrambled...
...police for Tammany, Mayor O'Brien had made a poor showing. The chances of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, last year's able and economical Acting Mayor, against Fusionist La Guardia in the November elections appeared considerably better than O'Brien's. Anxious lest a Fusion victory in New York weaken the state ticket in 1934, the national ticket in 1936, Boss Farley went to New York for the weekend and into a deep huddle with Boss Flynn. A laconic announcement from Washington that "the President is giving no approval to any local candidate...
This problem of lost causes finds a curious modern parallel in the refusal of Norman Thomas to support the fusion ticket in New York City. There is an interesting correspondence on just this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high...