Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish following is strong in McKee's Bronx. "I call on you," he wired LaGuardia, "to disavow it unequivocally and without reservation...
...trying to draw a red herring across the cowardly, contemptible and unjust attack that you have made and published against a great race so gloriously represented by our governor?" reported Candidate LaGuardia. "Answer that, Mr. McKee. and think twice before you send me another telegram." An article McKee wrote for Catholic World in 1915 which slurred the character of the average Jewish student in New York's schools, was thus added as fuel to the leaping fires of altercation...
...come back after a municipal purging. Ahearn's youth and vitality may be sorely needed for the comeback. Kiss. Straw votes gathered by the Literary Digest, Daily News, Brooklyn Eagle and RKO theatres indicated last fortnight that LaGuardia was leading O'Brien by a wide margin. When McKee entered the race, the nucleus of his support was Democratic votes taken back from LaGuardia, plus defections from Tammany. Last week there were signs that he would get a lot of Republican votes too. The city's leading G. O. Partisans like Ruth Pratt and Ogden Mills were siding...
...pledge. But many a silk-stocking Republican, to whom LaGuardia's radicalism is repugnant and who remembers how the gallant major bedeviled Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, would quietly cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus, McKee's cueball had already clicked off O'Brien's white-ball, was rolling toward LaGuardia's redball. It looked as though a Hooverite kiss would make a Rooseveltian billiard. Wall street was betting 2-to-1 it would...
Ferdinand. Pecora-running for office as District Attorney of New York County on the slate of Joseph V. McKee-last week finished off the Dillon, Read chapter of the U. S. Senate's investigation of bankers. From the investigation of Dillon. Read's investment trusts (TIME, Oct. 16) he went on to two other topics that have become part of the standard program in investigating banking houses: Tax Evasion, James V. Forrestal. Dillon, Read & Co.'s vice president and a financial comet of the 1920's, admitted that in selling for $892,936 stock which...