Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's new Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee refused to have the traditional Mayor's lamps placed outside the large Bronx apartment house where he lives. Still shining nightly are the lamps outside the homes of ex-Mayors James John ("Jimmy") Walker and John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan...
Scowling hugely, New York City's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Norris recently stormed into the "House of Breathless Men," as morgue attendants euphemistically call their nose-stinging structure. On Dr. Norris' mind was an order from Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee-who, to spare taxes and borrow money from bankers, is trying to cut city operating costs-to reduce his department budget by 20%. Before Dr. Norris' eyes was the barren poverty of his morgue office-a small room, cheap furniture, a microscope, reagent bottles. The floor is bare. But in an adjacent laboratory...
Last week came another blow. Mayor McKee forbade Dr. Norris' medical assistants the dignity of hiring private cars by the hour. They must use taxicabs, which are more economical. Huffed, Dr. Norris did what many an official anywhere would like to afford doing. He at once resigned...
...pathological laboratories, replaced the fee-grabbing coroners of the five boroughs which compose New York City. A few years later Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike'') Hylan slighted one of Dr. Norris' aides. Dr. Norris promptly mailed his resignation. Mayor Hylan tore it up. Last week Mayor McKee, more of a diplomat, accepted Dr. Norris' resignation and then persuaded him to withdraw...
...Prince of Wales, Lloyd George, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and many another. Unless there was snow to be cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they too were hit by the economy drive of energetic young Joseph ("Holy Joe'') McKee, the city's new Mayor (TIME, Sept. 19). Hereafter sanitation department men must stick to sanitation, tootling must not interfere with street-sweeping, garbage-collecting...