Word: mccooey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later he shook off sleuthing reporters and disappeared alone in his $17,000 nickel-trimmed Duesenberg. Somewhere about the city he met John Francis Curry, leader of Tammany Hall and John H. McCooey, Democratic boss of Brooklyn. At 10 p. m. he returned in high spirits to his Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue...
Smith Week. Before starting for a convention that promised to be as indecorous and undignified as any he had ever attended, Al Smith spent a quiet week in New York. While fishing off Long Island he met with John Francis Curry, Tammany chieftain, and Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn. Two days later affable Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts dropped in to see Mr. Smith at the Empire State Building. Governor Ely will make the Smith nominating speech. Asked whether he would refer to Mr. Smith as the Happy Warrior, Governor Ely snapped: "We've graduated from that high...
Before the Seabury committee one day last week appeared 67-year-old Boss McCooey, State Republican Leader William Kingsland Macy and Mr. Steinbrink. Blue-blooded Leader Macy said he knew nothing about the "deal" until the bill came up in the Legislature. Mr. Steinbrink said he knew nothing about it until Mr. Macy told him. Boss McCooey pulled his long white mustache, said "Harya?" to the assembled newshawks, smiled genially at Mr. Seabury. Tapping the ends of his fingers together, he frankly told Mr. Seabury all about...
Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky of the Appellate Division had, a year ago, urged the creation of additional judgeships to relieve calendar congestion. The Brooklyn Bar Association recommended the creation of eight places. Boss McCooey "took the initiative myself," planned to increase the number of places to twelve.* He offered the Republicans, who controlled the legislature, five of them. The law was passed. Two hours before the Republican and Democratic judicial conventions last September, Boss McCooey met Frederick J. H. Kracke, who had succeeded Mr. Steinbrink as Brooklyn's Republican boss, and they exchanged the names of the candidates slated...
...Boss McCooey: Except that I was the political leader and I had something to do with urging those nominations. I might say, of course, that he has been at the Bar for ten years, is generally regarded as capable and efficient, has the poise and the character and the industry, and so long as he was in a receptive mood I was very glad to recommend...