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Loudly have New York City's Fusionists boasted that their Mayoral candidate, onetime Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia, has the backing of Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, whose municipal investigations ran Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker out of the City Hall and into exile. Last week the followers of Independent Democratic Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee could match Inquisitor for Inquisitor with Fusion. On their ticket, as candidate for District Attorney, they got Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Senate's Wall Street investigation, quizzer last spring of J. P. Morgan & Co., last week of Dillon, Read...
...take the double hazard of lending his tacit support in a local political fight, thus jeopardizing his national prestige, and affronting the Republican Progressives who helped shove his recovery program through Congress last spring. McKee's support would be drawn from the following of Fusion Candidate Fiorello La Guardia, scrappy little Progressive ex-Congressman, firm friend of Senators Norris, La Follette et al., as well as from disgruntled Democrats. In some quarters it was reported that the White House had been drawn into the New York Mayoral scrap because Postmaster General Jim Farley wants to become New York...
...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...
...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 mok-a-mok temp, and hints that Mr. Villard is relaxing too easily from his position of stern and examining rectitude. Possibly Mr. Villard is right, and Mr. Blanshard is right, in withdrawing support from the Socialist party as a "permanently defeated...
This autumn Tammany Hall has on its hands the toughest municipal campaign in a decade to keep John Patrick O'Brien, its prognathous, bumbling Mayor, in New York City Hall. Against Tammany is arrayed an aggressive fusion ticket headed by short, swart, pugnacious Fiorello La Guardia. City finances are in such a plight that Tammany must impose additional taxes on the eve of election. Yet last week Tammany got two lucky breaks from two grand juries in Manhattan which did much to pluck up its sagging political spirits...