Word: mccooey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retiring at 69. Much talk arose when the job went to 45-year-old Dr. Eugene A. Colligan, onetime principal of Boys' High School in Brooklyn and associate superintendent of schools, jobs which he is supposed to have obtained with the help of cherubic Boss John McCooey of Brooklyn...
...states-Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana- were at the track. James Roosevelt was staying with Mrs. Alvin T. Hert. Republican National Committeewoman from Kentucky. From New York came Bernard Baruch, Forbes Morgan, onetime Sheriff Tom Farley. Boss John F. Curry, who made his own bets. Boss John McCooey who tried to pick a "daily double." From Washington came Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Postmaster General James A. Farley who called the gathering "the flower of Democracy," presented the gold trophy to Col. Bradley...
Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn, who is also a Democratic national committeeman, publicly repudiated his Congressional delegation's action, called its votes "asinine." Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany tried to weasel out of a boss's responsibility by saying that Manhattan representatives had not asked his views, that if they had, he would have advised them to stand by the President. The White House was unimpressed...
...Hague, New Jersey's boss, proudly exhibited the candidate to thundering thousands. Thirty-five hundred Republicans-for-Roosevelt heard him, along with Owen D. Young, from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. Arm-in-arm with Al Smith he marched out before Boss John H. ("For Success") McCooey's cheering cohorts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After lunching in the Bronx he ferried the East River for his one & only appearance on Long Island. The campaign's grand finale came Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. About the Governor, Boss John Francis Curry bunched...
...inner room, was not available to all comers. He received Al Smith. Jack Dempsey got in for a moment. Bernard Mannes Baruch (in silk topper), curly-headed "Sonny" Whitney (who had not won his race for Congress but was supposedly in line for a sub-Cabinet job), Boss McCooey of Brooklyn, President Sam Levy of the Borough of Manhattan-all such, of course, had access. But through all their cordialities and rejoicing, Franklin Roosevelt continued to concentrate on the returns, the living figures of the votes of the people for him-him-to be President. A double row of girls...