Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusive meeting was held in the 32nd story of the Aztec Tower of the Union Guardian Building. John K. McKee, representing the R. F. C., laid down the terms. The long wrangle ended. It was agreed to furnish $5,000,000 of new capital and promptly a telegram from the Comptroller of the Currency: "Due to the many complaints registered against the plan for a new bank . . . have deemed it advisable ... to appoint conservators . . . until the confusion of thought can be eliminated...
Once again it seems likely that New York will have a reform candidate in the lists against Vice, Corruption, and Tammany. This time it will be exmayor Joseph McKee opposing the present mayor, John F. O'Brien. The former is the white hope of the city liberals, but to an impartial observer he differs only superficially from the usual New York politician...
...came to visit Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. Joseph E. Widener and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney went to the races at Hialeah. The A. Atwater Kents entertained at dinner. The Chester Dales arrived. So did John Jacob Astor. So did the Edward F. Huttons. So did President Joseph Vincent McKee of New York City's Board of Aldermen. Joseph Hergesheimer was staying with James H. R. Cromwell. Arthur Somers Roche ate buffet dinner with Mrs. Dodge Sloane. Countess Edith di Zoppola visited the Harrison Williamses. The English nobility was represented by the Honorable Moya Beresford (great granddaughter...
Last week John Patrick O'Brien became the 101st Mayor of New York City. Before Tammany picked him for its docile dummy in City Hall vice James John ("Jimmy") Walker, resigned, vice Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe'') McKee, acting...
...Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues. Next issue appeared with a five-stanza reply in fluent doggerel, signed by smart little Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, Excerpt: I too had noted the condition That caused you, Sir, to make petition. I've pitied Washington and Skene, As poor white marble turned to green, And Booth and Tilden, Grant...