Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany conceded the election of Major LaGuardia as early as 10.30 o'clock last night. The latest returns, with only 242 of the 3,842 precincts unreported, were: LaGuardia, 799,297; McKee, 566,019; O'Brien...
Rehearsals for the play will begin this afternoon. The following is the tentative cast: Whitney M. Cook '36; John Cromwell '36; Bruce H. Fernald '37; Robert Gardner-Medwin, sS.A.; A.; Paul Killian, Jr. '37; Robert L. McKee '37; Charles Sedgewick '34; Richard C. Sullivan '35, and Arthur Szathmary '37. Mary Constable, Louise Graham, Lois Hall, and Elizabeth Morison are the Radcliffe students who will play the feminine roles...
...York the situation is unprecedented. Tammany, with its eggplant jowled O'Brien has cut its own throat and Fighting Major LaGuardia still looks to be a rabbit's foot ahead of Playboy McKee. Boston's prospects are problematical. The Beacon Hill minority that has been completely impotent in the past may find itself in the dizzy position of holding the balance of power. The bloc of votes which have meant victory in the past are now split, how closely no one knows. The Innes-Nichols-Goulston group is an excellent match for the Curley-Coakley-Foley combine. Parkman...
Probably no mayoralty contest in the United States has ever aroused more furor than the LaGuardia-McKee-Tammany struggle in the home of Broadway. From Times Square to the Pacific it is continuous front-page copy. But New York is not the only ostrich in the zoo. Boston, too, is witnessing one of the fiercest knock-down drag-outs of its history. And in both cases the reason for the excitement is exactly the same. A really able man, one who is neither crook nor incompetent, has a betting chance to be elected...
...boss system, after all, except the development of that quality of human nature which makes one man the leader among his fellows, the man of light and leading among his associates?" Compared to the light of Tammany's Boss Curry, he said, "The word of Flynn [McKee's boss] is as light as a half-burned match." And should Judge Seabury, LaGuardia's boss, come into power, "He will, in my opinion, give us an example of iron discipline and arbitrary action that will make the town sigh for the gentleness of Croker or the softness...