Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City now has five "little Mayors" (borough presidents), five district attorneys, five sheriffs, an unwieldy Board of Aldermen (69 members). Its eight-man Board of Estimate can hamstring the Mayor at will. The present board has so notoriously scotched the economy program of Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent McKee and failed to economize by itself, that last week Acting Governor (elect) Herbert H. Lehman had to call a special Legislative session Dec. 9 to consider amending mandatory municipal pay scales for New York City...
...after New York City's special mayoralty election it was announced that Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, no candidate, had received some 137,000 "protest" votes, to the alarmed dismay of Tammany Hall and its bull-jowled nominee for Mayor, John Patrick ("Potatoes") O'Brien. To cast a McKee vote citizens had to write his name in on voting machines-a process hampered by ignorance, lack of pencils and the hostility of Tammany election officials...
Last week the Board of Elections announced that the McKee vote was 232,501-not counting 9,525 ineligible ballots in which the Acting Mayor's name was misspelled 151 different ways...
...many years to come. The opportunity has arrived for the college man, with ideals of good government, to associate himself with a municipal reform which has prospects of success. Whether the reform will come from outside Tammany, with a fusion ticket, possibly headed by Mayor McKee, or from within the organization and possibly headed by Al Smith, it is still too early to say, but it is certain that a reform of some sort will be attempted...
...Without assistance the city cannot balance its budget and Tammany's organization must meet specific terms or perish; the bankers have demanded that long desired economical reform be put into effect. So it is that all the budget slashes and salary cuts which were called for by Mayor McKee and which were immediately nullified by the Tammany-controlled Board, will at last be realized. Nor will this work be easily undone, for so long as the bankers hold the mortgage, they can crack the whip...