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...ballot. Next year at the regular election, Tammany backed O'Brien again. Jim Farley, with whom Tammany had been on the outs since Walker's trial, arranged a Recovery ticket headed by McKee. Outraged citizens of all parties united to form a Fusion ticket headed by Fiorello LaGuardia. In the election LaGuardia ran first, O'Brien last. Even Tammany saw that Boss Curry had blundered. He was deposed...
...Elected. When Mayor LaGuardia was elected he found himself in charge of a city which had a debt of $1,800,000,000, about 50% greater than the public debt of the U. S. when he was elected to Congress in 1916. He found a city accustomed to living on an annual budget of $600,000,000. Tammany in election year had cut the budget to $551,000,000, but it was still $30,000,000 out of balance and when Mr. LaGuardia stepped in he found that Tammany had reduced the apparent size of the budget by simply omitting...
...Game of Politics. LaGuardia is today supremely confident of being reelected. Even in 1933 with the Republican machine solidly behind his Fusion ticket he did not win a majority in any borough, only a bare 800,000 out of 2,000,000 votes split three ways. That he may carry Manhattan where Tammany itself is split and where he has long had constituents is obviously possible, but has high hopes for Kings and Queens-and knaves. Just a little too-obvious knavery in the ranks of his opponents will drive the independent vote into his arms. And he hopes...
...last summer in New York-which succeeded in delivering over 200,000 votes to Franklin Roosevelt and Governor Herbert Lehman-is virtually committed to his nomination. Finally believing that the voters, who in the last city election backed Joseph V. McKee, were independents who will naturally swing to him, LaGuardia easily adds up a majority for reelection...
...particular pet of peppery little May Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has been the National Exhibition of American Art, to which, year ago, the governors of all the 48 U. S. States, plus the territories and possessions, were invited to send group of pictures representative of the localities. The first show, held in Rockefeller Center last year (TIME, June 1, 1936), produced a welter of well-meaning mediocrity, was generally damned by the critics and was totally ignored by two States. Last week the second National art show opened to a very different reception in the rooms generally reserved...