Word: mccooey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good son owes his job to the influence of a potent father and little is said about it. But last week Inquisitor Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating New York's municipal government had a good deal to say because rotund old John H. (for "Success") McCooey, Brooklyn's Democratic boss, had tried to get a good job for his rotund young John Jr. Inquisitor Seabury was interested deeply because the job was a seat on the New York Supreme Court...
...were: 1) Five Republicans and seven Democrats were nominated; 2) the Republicans endorsed the Democratic nominees and the Democrats approved the Republican choices; 3) one nominee was Meier Steinbrink, who was Republican leader of Brooklyn when the bill was passed; 4) another nominee was 32-year- old John H. McCooey Jr. Newspapers immediately denounced a "deal." Inquisitor Seabury said he would discover how it came about...
Said Socialist Nominee Thomas of the 6th District: "It represents a cross-section of Greater New York. Yet it represents in Congress one man-John McCooey, politically the owner of Brooklyn. He gave to Brooklyn ex-Judge Vause [see p. 19], he names all candidates." Among McCooey's puppets, said Socialist Thomas, is the Democratic incumbent, Congressman Andrew Lawrence Somers, onetime (1925) "baby member" of the House. Political observers guessed that high-minded Socialist Thomas, backed by the League for Independent Political Action of which famed Philosopher John Dewey is chairman, had chosen the 6th District less in hopes...