Word: mccooey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farley Theodore Roosevelt Jr. William Gibbs McAdoo Samuel Instill William Randolph Hearst Senator Reed Smoot The Forgotten Man Senator Huey Long Eugene Meyer Vincent Astor Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole Eddie Dowling James John Walker Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin Samuel Seabury John Francis Curry Secretary of Treasury Mills John H. McCooey General Douglas MacArthur Secretary of War Hurley
...John ("Jimmy") Walker. Hawk-beaked, tight-mouthed John Francis Curry, the Tammany boss whose leadership had cracked and broken earlier in the week at the state convention in Albany (see col. I), had hastily summoned a conference at the Plaza Hotel. In attendance were, among others, cherubic old John McCooey, the Brooklyn boss; hulking John Theofel, the Queens boss; George Washington Olvany...
...Bosses Curry and McCooey marched into the crowded Garden...
...Last year a similar deal was effected in Brooklyn when John H. McCooey Jr., younjj son of the local Democratic boss was approved by Republicans for the Supreme Court in return for Democratic approval of Meier Steinbrink, local G. O. P. boss, for the same bench...
...could "Jimmy" get the nomination? If the Governor had removed him he would be legally barred from running to succeed himself. His resignation circumvented that. Boss Curry was silent about another Walker candidacy. Boss McCooey was undetermined. It was reported that Alfred Emanuel Smith was against Walker because he "quit under fire." Republicans and independent Democrats scuttled about to find a winning fusion candidate...